Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken...
...days later, Henry Wallace set out for Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., supposedly to detail a highly publicized wheat subsidy plan before an international agriculture conference. But the economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the world agricultural business, the U. S. is prepared to take "aggressive action"; 2) the world would be a whole lot better if every nation had a crop-control program. Export subsidies Secretary Wallace blithely dismissed as a "type of economic warfare," which may be justified "in certain emergencies" under "exceptional...
...prospector-inventor had met a promoter named Archie Moulton Andrews, had been persuaded to let him display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost...
...power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican who will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican people are eating better than ever before. . . . The tendency in Mexico is toward general betterment. . . . President Roosevelt has labored to better the conditions of the farmers and industrial workers...
...waiting, watching mob with high-pressure streams of water. This would have three salutary effects: 1) wash away the morbidity of the mob; 2) clear the streets for traffic; 3) divert the would-be suicide's attention from his own real or fancied woes. Turn about is fair play...