Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that partisans can still listen to the voice of reason and that the Government is still the master of the spirit of fair play is heartening in these days of conversation about economic and physical force and revolution. The American way of sitting around the table and respecting each other's conviction has really been triumphant. For what we are witnessing is one of those progressive steps so often misunderstood but best described in Woodrow Wilson's phrase: "Pence without Victory...
...every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought to be in them. If they exist in order to be primarily...
...bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look you to it! James LeB. Boyle, II, '36 Thomas G. Ratcliffe '35 J. H. Davidson 2G.B...
...ancient principles of justice, to old that they have seemed to be part of our conception of fair dealing from time immemorial, have been rewritten by the Roosevelt revolution...
...explicitly that employers must deal with "representatives" that the workmen themselves choose or elect. But in the case of the employ organizations, created within a shop or wholly from employees of a certain company, with no outside spokesmen from National Labor Unions, the question arises whether the election was fair and whether these same unions, if really left to themselves, without influence from the employer's side, would join the A. F. of L. system or retain their own spokesmen...