square dealing

“Right now, as I speak, we have officers at Union Square dealing with looting, dealing with people breaking windows. Really, tearing down businesses that people have spent their lives to build.”

They were very “independent,” which is to say they did what seemed right in their own eyes, irrespective of such little matters as honesty or square dealing.

Enough people fall short of square dealing, however, to have left Americans a keen hunger for someone to trust.

In the preceding months, Balaguer had won a reputation for reasonable honesty, sound administration and square dealing.

The Depression is about to wreck Chairman Gray's long record for square dealing.