Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissioner MacCormick's clean-up was a windfall for Vanity Fair which got its February issue on the newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid. Its author was a onetime deputy Commissioner of Correction, Joseph Fulling Fishman, who calls Welfare Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal...
...never contemplated that a corporation of this sort would be set up, and that therefore it can't be done. . . . The Comptroller General has ruled that he must be advised in advance about every transaction. He wants to know where the properties are, whether the price is a fair one and, in addition, he says each title must be examined by the Attorney General's office. In some tracts there are hundreds of small parcels, and the Attorney General would not have time to do anything else under this ruling...
...drove south with him all day and all night. Next morning at a crossroads in Oklahoma they met by prearrangement a car with Texas license plates driven by a woman, who, from Dresser's description, was none other than Clyde Barrow's paramour, the fair, cigar-smoking Bonnie ("Suicide Sal") Parker. There Dresser was released and the convicts drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing fugitive, Charles Clifton McArthur, burglar and murderer, was captured as he entered Kansas City on a trolley car, having...
Died, "Blue Boy," prize hog, film actor, star of the Phil Stong-Will Rogers cinema State Fair (TIME, Feb. 6); of overeating and overgrooming; in Hollywood...
...Conant's speech before the Harvard Club of New York is the first significant index to the development which the University may be expected to fellow during his regime. Although the substance of Mr. Conant's remarks was necessarily broad and incomplete, it is fair to assume that they embody an educational philosophy which his first annual report on Monday will serve merely to expand...