Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Added Eden: "Our aim is to maintain law & order, to establish a Greek Government broadly representative of all opinion in Greece, including EAM. . . . The first task of the Government will be to get relief going and food for the people. The second task will be to organize free and fair elections...
...cowed by the flamethrowers, and evidently went deep into their dugouts when the flame came licking over the bank. We took 60 prisoners in three minutes, all paratroopers, and all thoroughly frightened except one. He surrendered easily enough, but kept complaining bitterly in broken English: "Flames-it is not fair...
...theater, and Carmen Jones the opera (in blackface, too). The first Aquacade, in Cleveland ("I'll use Lake Erie for a stage and Canada as a backdrop"), was going to turn a swimming meet into a musicomedy. The second Aquacade, at the New York World's Fair, starred Eleanor Holm, whom -just as soon as Fanny Brice divorced him-Rose was going to marry. But for the war, Rose would probably have gone through with his sky show-"a chorus of 64 planes," the orchestra in one captive blimp, a glee club in another, and "70,000 spectators...
Such stunts succeed because they are more than ballyhoo. Rose is compared interminably with Barnum, but unlike Barnum he does not play the public for a sucker; he gives his customers their money's worth. The World's Fair Aquacade, as Rose said, "spelled the death of the 25? peep show by giving good entertainment for 15? more." And Rose is never afraid of splurging. He casts whole bakeries upon the waters, knowing that the more bread there is, the more dough it contains...
From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...