Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assumes his new deanship next September 1, Landis will continue to rule the commission that he helped create when he assisted in drafting the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934--but he rules it with a hand that Wall Street tycoons acclaim as both fair and conservative...
...have to make an arrangement.' The 'arrangement' was that he wanted me to charge $1,000 for the operation and offer him a substantial portion. Over the week end he was going to persuade the child's family that $1,000 was a fair price...
Snowshoeing Skiing Temperature 8:00 A.M. Snow (Inches) Woodstock, Vt. GOOD FAIR 10 6 Bartlett, N. H. GOOD GOOD --4 12 CANAAN, N. H. FAIR FAIR --4 5 Franconia Notch, N. H. GOOD GOOD --3 12 Fryeburg, Me. GOOD GOOD --6 8 Goffstown, N. H. POOR POOR 14 2 Gorham, N. H. NONE POOR --6 3 Greenfield, Mass. NONE GOOD 8 7 Intervale, N. H. GOOD GOOD 2 11 Jackson, N. H. GOOD GOOD 0 13 Laconia, N. H. GOOD GOOD --2 5 Lancaster, N. H. NONE FAIR 14 1 Lincoln, N. H. GOOD GOOD 2 10 Littleton...
...power, refused arbitration conferences then, and persisted in having his "basic demand" of the closed shop granted before any arbitration began. Instead of the active opposition used in 1934 the owners pursued a policy of watchful waiting, hoping the public would soon sicken of a strike which bade fair to dry up city after city on the Pacific Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips of the winning candidates in the last election, was slow to force action...
...leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled retailers for approval...