Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing 2,000 guests of the Railway Business Association in Manhattan, he said: " There is no legitimate interest of the shipping public which will not be adequately protected during a fair trial of the Transportation Act as it now stands. The public wants adequate service. For such adequate service the railroads must secure a fair return. . . . The public is on trial to a greater extent than are the railroads...
Despite adverse criticism to the effect that Mr. Churchill has waited until after the deaths of Lords Kitchener and Fisher in order to attack them, it is abundantly clear that he has written a fair, searching and important factual narrative on the causes which made the Dardanelles campaign necessary, and on the ofcial conduct of that ill-fated venture. Mr. Churchill might well answer his critics that if historians had refrained throughout the ages to write of Philip of Macedon, the first great military strategist, because he was dead, nothing would now be known...
...Canada's ease. Canada is, not a land of eternal snows inhabited solely by vicious French Canadians, officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted always in summer costume, and decrepit log cabins, Transportation, He asserts, is provided for a large number of automobiles and a network of very fair railroads. Eskinio dog teams, while still employed in the outlying, districts, are no longer the only means of communication between Toronto and Montreal. And it does not snow all year round...
Party leaders are naturally expected to make golden prophecies and it is for the layman to stand by and weigh the chances. In this case an examination of recent history will give Senator. Underwood's prophecy a fair foundation. Although the 1920 election hurled a Democratic administration from its seat with the condemnatory roar of a great plurality, the tables were turned in 1922, a scant two years later, in the state and congressional elections. The fickle plebes had grown so sour upon Republican administration that a good Republican governor in New York was turned out, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts...
...come to America in search of a wealthy wife. The Daily News, tabloid newspaper of Manhattan, was bold enough to nominate various candidates for my hand. First, Miss Millicent Rogers, who ' despite her industrial wealth does not look like an American. . . . When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss Abby Rockefeller, 'pretty granddaughter of the oil emperor,' who is 'well chaperoned by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth ten millions...