Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rayburn would be re-elected Speaker, Massachusetts' John McCormack majority leader. All chairmanships would remain in Democratic hands, but the chairmen of 13 of the 19 standing committees would be Southern Democrats. According to their political records, House members would divide roughly into 54% against the Fair Deal...
...fact is, the President does retreat. While still bugling all the notes of the Fair Deal, he retreated, for example, from the legislative front line on FEPC, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Whether he retreats or not in the 82nd Congress will not make much difference. If he doesn't, he will be immobilized...
...Princeton, N.J., powerhouse Princeton over not-so-fair Harvard, 63-26, with Princeton clearing its bench to keep the score down but nonetheless running up the biggest score ever recorded against Harvard in its 76-year football history...
...altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
Last week from RCA's President Frank Folsom came a blistering refusal: "Your request cannot be regarded as ... in accordance with the well-established American principles of free competition and fair play. If this kind of thing goes on in America, the Phillies certainly missed a bet in the last World Series. They should have asked the Yanks for Joe DiMaggio . . Nothing, not even our tri-color tube can remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that...