Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Lord of the Budget Bureau announced three weeks ago an expected deficit for the Treasury of $180,000,000. With income taxes yielding an unexpected $63,000,000, and the tariff another $100,000,000, the deficit is in a fair way of being wiped...
...East has taken a slap at the West. The People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston played the other day a piece by Saint-Saens entitled Hail California. This composition was written for the world's fair of 1915, and, existing only in manuscript, has been given heretofore nowhere else than in California. Presumably the Native Sons think highly of this music written in glorification of their state. The Bostonese, however, saluted Hail California as bad music. "The feeblest and least inspired piece of music written at full maturity by any modern composer of distinction...
...Profession". On April 6th Dr. R. C. Cabot spoke to a group of students in a very informal way, having no set subject for his talk. Questions were written out before the talk by the men who were present and Dr. Cabot answered these in a broad and fair-minded...
...cases; but this has been made impossible by the unjustifiable amounts of money taken from them by the government under the terms of the Reserve Act in 1919-21, under the euphemism of "franchise taxes. The Reserve Banks owe the government nothing, and should pay it nothing, except a fair rate of interest on government deposits. Certainly the British government, which needs funds more acutely than ours, should not think of profiteering at the expense of the Bank of England in any such way. Before a theoretically correct rediscount policy can be pursued by the Reserve Banks, such unjust...
...nothing to depend on except his understanding of currents and his "feel" of the air. Without the knowledge gained by machine-propelled planes he could never have made such progress; but, since he has this knowledge--and it is increasing every day--the future of the glider bids fair to eclipse the motor-driven plane for private use in the future...