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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor and for the suppression of the illicit traffic in soul-destroying drugs. We shall conserve all the natural resources of the country and prevent the hand of monopoly from closing on them and on our water powers, so that our children after us shall find this still a fair land to dwell within. And to the veterans of our wars, especially to those who were stricken and wounded in the country's service and whose confidence has been so cruelly and corruptly abused, we shall give, in honor and in honesty, the grateful care they have so justly earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixit | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...adequate wage earned under healthful conditions, the right to organize in order to obtain it and the right to bargain for it collectively, through agents and representatives of its own choosing, have been established after many years of weary struggle. These rights are conceded now by all fair-minded men. They must not be impaired either by injunction or by any other device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixit | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...Admitting that American investors have an absolute right to put their money into whatever channel they desire-and this includes foreign Governments already indebted to the United States in a sum exceeding $10,000,000,000-does not fair play require that all such investors be promptly advised that no international banker nor skilful strategist in party politics can sound a clarion call for the manhood of American to drop work, home ties and loved ones to risk or give up life or limb in defense of moneys loaned on private initiative? Should they not be told that the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...reply I am instructed by my Government to state that it has no preference whatever regarding candidates for the high office of President of Nicaragua. My Government supports no candidate and is hostile to no candidate; it desires only that free and fair elections may be held in order that the will of the people may be expressed without hindrance at the polls. My Government feels that the transference of the center of political activity of Nicaragua to Washington would be detrimental to that Government's interests and this Government therefore cannot express its views regarding any ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Honest Scheme | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...restricted, it may be, to official statements by police or state's attorney. If that be unfair to the defense, some other rule should be worked out. It is a problem suitable for the American Bar Association to take up. In conjunction with representatives of the press a fair but stringest law could be devised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confessional | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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