Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prime requisite of living the good life. How could that make him guilty if that's all he tried for?" Theo the Lawyer agreed: "There was no law on the books that Socrates violated. This was simply a trumped-up charge. I say he did not get a fair trial...
...place, denied that they had any intentions of setting themselves up as a final authority in such matters. At week's end representatives from the broadcasters and from the actors' union got together to see what they could do about handling anti-Communist charges and providing a fair hearing for the accused...
...Utah, by a 4-to-1 majority, Republicans picked Wallace F. Bennett, a small business (paint & glass) man who once headed the National Association of Manufacturers, to run against the Democrats' scholarly Senator Elbert D. Thomas. Fair Dealer Thomas, who had never paid much attention to his local political fences, seemed to be in real trouble this time, facing his stiffest fight in years...
...Reporting on his year's activities at the Oregon State Fair last week, 13-year-old David Shelby, of Albany (pop. 13,000), Ore. submitted his 4-H Club record book. The year, as David Shelby...
Died. Harvey Dow Gibson, 68, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then...