Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family and fun. Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence may help political friends up for election this autumn...
Administrative Law, When the Court ruled that Secretary Henry Agard Wallace had not given a "full, fair, and open hearing" to a group of Kansas City Stockyards commission men before fixing the rates, they were directed to charge farmers for their services, Mr. Wallace angrily retorted that the Court had reversed a position it took in the same case two years ago. got Solicitor General Jackson to petition the Court for a rehearing (TIME, May 30). On its closing day the Court refused the rehearing, sharply denied the Secretary's "unwarranted" assertions that it had reversed itself, intimated that...
...members of the fair sex are to join in the competition in certain events on an equal footing with the men. They are Mollie Cummings of Vassar and Joan King of Stanford. This makes flying one of the sports where both men and women are put on the same competitive basis...
...signers declare that the commission's indiscriminate condemnation of socially-minded religious and educational leaders insults the intelligence and patriotism of all fair-minded citizens...
Death Is So Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'Alton as a novelist of individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified...