Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Full details would fill a good-sized volume, but when it has been conceded that the worker is at a disadvantage and not always able to strike a fair bargain, hence "collective bargaining," why has no legislation been enacted which will protect persons seeking domestic employment who invariably are in dire circumstances and with no one to depend upon, when there are so many employers willing to take advantage of the situation...
...moment at every fair is the grand balloon ascension. One night last week at the world's greatest fair. 40,000 persons crowded into Chicago's Soldier Field to see what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record...
...land gathered last week at Columbia University for a conference such as Teachers College is forever holding, they were nearly unanimous about one thing. On the U. S. platter are three billions for public works. How about a slice for Education? Dean William Fletcher Russell asked for "a fair share," at once, in any form. Professor George Drayton Strayer asked for a billion. Six State Commissioners of Education gloomily chorused about retrenchments, pay cuts and shut-down schools in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington, Massachusetts and Maine. Two of them pleaded piteously for Federal...
...street of downtown Chicago. Through them engineers guide small electric locomotives (running on a 2-ft. gauge track and powered by current from wires overhead) which draw trains of ten or 15 "freight cars" each four feet wide and twelve feet long-carrying about as much goods as a fair-sized motor truck. The freight tunnel system, begun in 1901, was mainly an accident; the first tunnels were built by an independent telephone company which went on the rocks. Reorganization followed; Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman put in new capital. The system was enlarged, 49 connections made with different...
...Federal bank ruptcy act. He listed assets of $134,000, liabilities of $2,020,000, laid his troubles to having personally guaranteed bond issues for Manhattan's Fifty-Seventh Street Building Co. and Eighth Avenue Building Corp. Said he: "I feel that I have been more than fair with all my creditors, for in order to pay the charges on the properties above mentioned. I have had to borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered...