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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reconstruction of the Federal Reserve and Federal Farm loan systems to provide lor direct public control of the Nation's money and credit to make it available on fair terms to all, and National and State Legislatures to permit and promote cooperative banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette Platform | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...tariff that will promote competition, prevent monopoly, yield a fair revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Platform | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

Railroads. The Esch-Cummins Act of 1920 promised cheaper freight rates, improved service, better labor conditions, peace between employer and employees, fair return to railways on their investments. Democrats favor these aims but contend the Act has not achieved them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Platform | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

Peter grew up, cheerful, well-pursed. He had all but completed his education at the famed Bah-Bah University, when he fell in love with the fair Georgina, butcher's daughter. Peter's stern parent forbade the match, threatened to cut him off with but a single pig. To cure him of his passion, it was decided to ship him off to Paris with his tutor and mentor, one Rufus Gabbe, M.A., Ph.D., panegyrist of Bah-Bah philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candide Recrudescens* | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...northwest, you will pass the Chevy Chase Country Club. There is a links. It was somewhere near the eleventh or twelfth hole?accounts vary?somewhere near one of these holes, on a pleasant June day, that a foursome was in progress. Part of it was on the fair green and part of it was in the foul. The part on the fair green consisted of Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Andrieus A. Jones. The part in the foul was Senators Thomas J. Walsh and John B. Kendrick. These latter had lost, or had failed to discover, their balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ancient Game | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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