Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroad Rates?"The law requires that rates should be just and reasonable. . . . Unless the Government adheres to the rule of making a rate that will yield a fair return, it must abandon rate-making altogether...
Frederick Huntington Gillett, a member of Congress from the Second Massachusetts District since 1893, the longest record of service in Congress possessed by any of its present members,? became Speaker of the third Congress in succession. His record in the chair of the House is generally known as fair and equitable. The only reason that his reelection as Speaker was deferred until the ninth ballot was that Republican insurgents were holding up organization until they could secure concessions on the rules of procedure...
...Garrett made a short speech, describing his recent opponent as "a gentleman by birth, breeding and culture, a legislator of long experience and fine capacity, a robust partisan, but a polite one, and a presiding officer honest and fair...
...seemed fair to announce that the petition to the Senior Nominating Committee calling for a recount of the votes for Class Orator was submitted without the knowledge or consent of the candidates and solely to settle any doubts which might have been raised concerning the validity of the election. FRANCIS E. BOWMAN...
Seymour Piran Edgerton of Fair Haven...