Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed 51-27 the Lenroot-Taber bill prohibiting importation of milk or cream into the U. S. without a permit from the Secretary of Agriculture. U. S. dairy interests are pleased. Urban consumers may.be vexed. Typical argument for the bill: "Is it fair to place United States dairy farmers, who have to comply with strict sanitary rules, in competition with Canadian dairies where conditions are sometimes shocking?"-Senator Lenroot. (Bill went to the President.) The House- ([ Passed a bill for the improvement of Alaska. (Bill went to the Senate.) C Passed a bill making appropriations for District of Columbia...
...will do the farmer no good. For as soon as higher prices are created for a crop, more of that crop will be produced, and the last state will be worse than the first. Rebuttal: with fair prices for all crops (including swine), farmers will not tend to produce an excess of one and an insufficiency of another...
...handful of Senators, a tribute from Guam, something to enhance the glory of Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however, in an advertisement of clothing made by Hart, Schaffner and Marx, delivers a direct blow to the fair name of Harvard in a criticism which demands immediate and thorough reform...
Fort Worth was top excited a community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped...
...write a delectable tidbit pretending to scorn Mrs. Browning because she had gone to court instead of killing Mr. Browning. The World's introduction : "... To become famous in Chicago the woman kills and kills and kills. Miss Watkins, investigating scientifically the road to fame in our own fair city, gives her conclusions below." Some conclusions : "In Chicago, you must shoot, not sue, your way to glory. Her front pages drip with blood, whereas New York's are smeared with dirt. Still, what's the odds-dirt or blood? Both are good for the circulation...