Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racial or religious discrimination remained. In Comptroller General Warren's ruling he wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's order against such discrimination was not an order, that all Government contracting agencies can do is get the consent of contractors to abide by it. This ruling made the simmering fair-employment problem boil over and caused widespread speculation as to whether Franklin' Roosevelt's order prohibiting racial discrimination had now been nullified...
...government without raising a storm of furor and resentment. . . . Any lasting world peace must have as its keystone a complete understanding between the United States and the British Empire. But this cooperation and understanding cannot be had except upon a basis of equality and frank and fair dealings. . . . Frank discussion will always dissipate the clouds of suspicion...
Wilson worked for the New York Sun, served overseas in World War I, was managing editor of the now-defunct Vanity Fair in 1920, associate editor of the New Republic from 1926 to 1931. Since then he has been writing the books that have made him the foremost intellectual's intellectual in the U.S. (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, The Triple Thinkers}, now lives quietly with his third wife, Novelist Mary McCarthy, and their polysyllabic four-year-old son in Wellfleet, Mass...
...shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed...
Dairy v. Kitchen. Their opposition went back to 1936, when the system was established by the late Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, head of New-Zealand's first Labor Government ("The Fair Deal"). He wanted the House proceedings broadcast, on the grounds that the press did not give the Labor Party an even break. He put New Zealand's transmitters under direct Government control, appointed himself first Minister of Broadcasting...