Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose rescue he raced on his wheel chair was the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide for minimum wages and maximum hours in U. S. industry, item No. 2 on the President's program for the current extra session...
...remained cheerful. But the two commanders quit their last meeting grim and glum, merely announcing that they would report back-without recommendations-to their respective negotiating committees when they reassembled December 21. "Is it the status quo ante?" Mr. Lewis was asked-meaning war. "That would be a fair analysis," he replied stepping into the elevator...
Twenty-four hours later the King's handsome young brother, Prince Charles, 34, arrived in England, did not go to Welbeck Abbey. In 1932 Prince Charles was rumored engaged to the Duke of Portland's fair-haired granddaughter, the none-too-beauteous Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, now 21. World-wide rumors that Lady Anne is about to become either Queen or a Princess of the Belgians were met by official denials carried on British Press Association wires and at Brussels the King's Secretary, Baron Capelle called them "childish fairy tales...
There's a fair crowd every afternoon down at Briggs Cage, but Mikkola isn't satisfied. "We could use more men in every event. We're particularly short of pole vaulters. They don't have to be experienced, but it would help if they were about six feet tall, pretty fast on their feet, and could stand on their hands...
Said a spokesman for the University: "Inasmuch as these workers come approximately within the same wage group as the waitresses in the University Dining Halls, it is fair that they receive the same relative wage increases as was given recently to the waitresses...