Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money invested may gain a little interest on the money which they have earned by the sweat of their brows." When he finally did go to his executive desk at Madison and held his first press conference, he forbade reporters to smoke...
...hours later Governor Olson collapsed before a microphone at the State Fair Grounds, was hospitalized for nervous exhaustion. But Tom Mooney would not let his own impaired health stand in the way of the greatest day of his life. From Sacramento next day he motored to San Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges...
Safe as a county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
Twenty-six undergraduate volunteers, recruited by the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, have been working for months teaching classes of young boys in preparation of the famous Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House Science Fair...
...work of each volunteer is to take a class of students, ranging in age from 16 down, for weekly instruction in some particular field, which may be either academic or athletic. The young teachers work along with and guide their proteges in arranging exhibits for the fast-approaching Fair, which is always one of the highlights of Boston's winter schedule of events...