Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...
Ending in a swing version of "Fair Harvard," the runner-up team gave an act as radio comedians. Harlow played the trumpet and Wright the piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...
...deserves a fair and open hearing, which is full and impartial and without any predilection for or against any person or against the TVA itself. The investigating body should be provided with sufficient funds to make possible a first hand examination of the obscure financial records of the power program [administered by Director Lilienthal], and of all other important phases of the TVA which come into question. The fertilizer policy [administered by Director Morgan] . . . was adopted without being disclosed to the TVA Board, and no impartial technical appraisal and report of the fertilizer program ever has been made...
...nationwide vote were taken to discover the most despised politico-social organization currently extant, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund would stand at least a fair chance of winning. A group of some 125,000 U. S. citizens of German blood and clubby tendencies, it is hated in the U. S. as an offspring of Naziism. In Germany it is apparently equally scorned by the Hitler Government: 1) as a feeble, provincial imitation, and 2) as a source of damaging publicity...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recently sounded fair warning that rearmament expenditure by Britain will continue to increase each year at least through fiscal 1940. Explaining itself, the Chancellor's White Paper said: "The paper proceeds on the assumption, now almost universally accepted, that the steps taken by His Majesty's Government to make good our defense are unavoidable and that they furnish a steadying influence in the present state of international relations...