Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer as to the way in which it might be improved," said Mr. Harkness in answer to a question concerning his opinion of the Plan as it now exists. "The above information came to me both form the faculty and students and this I take to be a very fair picture of the way the Plan is working...
...Recovery Act substitutes regulated for unregulated competition. Through the codes of fair practice, the Government gives industry the opportunity of taking cooperative action to civilize its competitive methods. If the depression has taught us anything, it has shown that practically every one of the checks and balances attributed to competition may at one time or another refuse to work. For example, under the operation of competition excessive producing capacity has not withdrawn from the field and left the market to the more efficient producers. On the contrary, excess capacity is still to be seen everywhere, and diminished demand is merely...
Although Henry wouldn't give his reasons, they seem fairly evident, if one wishes to read between the lines. Henry believes in the "ideal behind," although he falls to explain whether he believes this ideal to imply government or self-control of industry; he has, by his own admission, taken many years ago the first tiny footsteps that the country is now taking. In short, Henry was in on the ground floor, and the public will know it, or else, Henry feels that if he signs, there will be no opportunity for delayed and dignified explanations in the Times...
...made the throwback to the eighteenth century too explicit, and thus jeopardized the theme by an unnecessary contact with reason. But so much of the delicacy of this journey between centuries is the mind and heart of a single man has been preserved that the objection would not be fair. Leslie Howard is just as convincing as he was on the stage, and his witty pantomime responds admirably to the great opportunities, and the greater responsibilities, of the screen. Miss Heather Angel is, if different from Miss Margalo Gilmore, quite as delightful; she has caught the tragedy of time...
...Minnesota law provided that the state could prevent foreclosures by requiring the holder of the mortgage to accept a fair rental value on interest charge until a specific date in 1934. Had there been no date fixed, the law would have been regarded as a piece of permanent legislation. This may be assumed from the fact that the majority opinion of the Supreme Court made a special point concerning the limited character of the legislation...