Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirteen years a Congressman, Georgia's serious, bespectacled Robert Ramspeck has sweated hard and long for civil service and fair labor legislation. Through it all he has been a loyal New Dealer. Last week, partly as a reward and partly because his chunky shoulders could take it, he got a bigger job. Beaming with pleasure, grey-shocked Majority Leader John W. McCormack tapped him to be Democratic whip, to succeed Pennsylvania's late Patrick J. Boland...
...money. He also hopes to capitalize on labor's hate for Leland Ford. It was apoplectic Mr. Ford who suggested concentration camps for labor leaders "guilty of dissension," and last year he sponsored a bill making strikes in defense industries punishable by imprisonment, even death. With a fair record on foreign policy, he is nevertheless nationally known as an "obstructionist...
George Renner's maps, published in Collier's, have two main geopolitical principles: 1) states should be large, 2) each should be given a fair share of this world's shores and jewels...
...words-&-music side, Rodgers & Hart have done a fair enough job, but nothing to show that they are the top team in the business. The lyrics, sometimes gay, are oftener gamy. The score, except for one charming tune, Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me, is merely pleasant...
...Athletics for all" has taken the place of the "no athletics" decree of the first World War, and it bids fair to becoming a permanent part of a Harvard education...