Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a resolution appropriating $1,500,000 for San Francisco's 1939 World's Fair. Introduced in the House few days before was a bill appropriating $3,000,000 for New York's 1939 World's Fair, as a substitute for the $5,000,000 bill that President Roosevelt vetoed last fortnight (TIME...
...within the hour" he had been in conversation with the President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
...called in because the mob had previously taken some loot across a State line), local officers and police from four States were out in force after the Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
...order to preserve a record of the singing of "Fair Harvard" by the Tercentenary Chorus, accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which was the concluding item in the Tercentenary Celebration on September 18, the song has been specially recorded by RCA and is now on general sale...
...Presented with a bill creating a commission and authorizing the appropriation of $5,000,000 for U. S. participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt imposed the first veto of his second term.* His reasons: the sum was too large and the proposed commission (three Cabinet members, seven Congressmen) would be given complete authority for the expenditure of public funds, "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the Executive." Congressmen sniggered publicly at both reasons...