Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make Mr. de Valera's blood boil. Next day he got up in the Bail Eireann and announced that because of "yesterday's grave event" he had suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
...largely in the interest of the 6,500,000 Greek Orthodox and Moslem Serbs in the South. Croats and Serbs have never got along well together. Besides their religious differences, the Croats consider the Serbs uncultured barbarians. They complain that their old agreements with the Serbs for self-government, fair taxation and civil liberties were abrogated by a dictatorial Serb Government. Their list of grievances - suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating for it, Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks...
From the early days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin...
Unlike many thousands of U. S. citizens who visited New York City last week, they gave only a fleeting glance to its World's Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...
Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...