Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors back of him. Logically, his next attack was on that group of cancer sufferers which is most numerous and amenable to treatment: "If we can get all the women talking about cancer," said he three years ago and again last week, "we will be in a fair way of controlling this tremendous cause of suffering and death." Women's Field Army- The biggest organization of U. S. women is the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Accordingly, Dr. Little sought out Mrs- Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass.; long a prominent clubwoman and president of the Federation...
...size of Vogue, on shiny paper with two of its 84 pages in color, Bachelor appeared to bid for a clientele a social cut above Esquire's. Its use of photography and art indicated that Bachelor also aspired to the 90,000 public of the late Vanity Fair. Bachelor's opening editorial manifesto pictured it as "mirroring the varied interests of the discerning cosmopolite, in society as well as in business or profession, in politics as well as in sport ... in adventure . . . the arts and sciences," with "sympathy, dignity and a leavening amount of humor...
...sentenced for stealing a sailboat, persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. "I played fair with you, didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing the boy in court again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday...
Test case of the constitutionality of New York's Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act of 1935 was Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers, v. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). No facts were disputed. Macy's admitted selling books at prices lower than those agreed upon between Doubleday, Doran and its retail affiliate. New York Supreme Court Justice Frederick P. Close decided Macy's could sell books at whatever price it chose, declared the Feld-Crawford Act unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Opined he: "The act attempts to give to private persons unlimited...
...Boys and Illinois' Old Dearborn Distributing Co., the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously held that those States' anti-price-cutting laws were not in conflict with the U. S. Constitution (TIME, Dec. 21). Since the Feld-Crawford Act was for all intents & purposes identical with these fair trade laws, New York's Court of Appeals could do nothing but gracefully perform a judicial flipflop. Last week...