Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody hire their children when they were little bits of things...
Major General Ewing E. Booth, commander of the Philippine Department, to command the 9th Corps Area (San Francisco). Also a War hero (Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne), onetime deputy Chief of Staff, General Booth is fair-headed, slight, bubbling with nervous energy. He is noted for loyalty to his subordinates...
That favorite topic for the reporters of the middle west to fall back on--the World's Fair--has been banned from the pages of New England newspapers. All the reporters on the Boston metropolitan dailies, for instance, have been given orders not to mention the Fair. Yankees must not know there is such a thing. They must spend their summer and their money here...
Greeks in Chicago sent a cable to Samuel Insull in Athens, inviting him to open "Spartan Day" at Chicago's World's Fair "because there are 120,000,000 people in the United States who would like to see Mr. Insull once more." From Spartan Insull, no word. His wife last week left Athens for Venice...
That incident epitomized the impression of observers watching a nation of peasants struggle with an ambitious commercial & military aviation program. The Russians were better than fair flyers, but they were poor mechanics and executives. They were always forgetting something. But no pilot or other participant forgot anything at the U. S. S. R.'s first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly...