Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material wellbeing. Labor likes him because he is fair, thorough, gives clear orders. Women trust him because he is a high-minded man whose deeds need no retelling and, from him, get none...
...Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations, waited patiently...
...will arise as of yore-the bill retains, as an alternative method by which the Federal Farm Board would help market the surplus, the much-debated "equalization fee"-a percentage levied upon all producers of a crop in which there is a surplus, to be spent eking out a "fair price" for producers faced with a loss on that crop. Last week, while the Senate anticipated hot debate on Senator McNary's bill, the House Committee on Agriculture was struggling to frame a similar compromise...
...very clear reason except that Smith was for it. No further reduction has been possible since 1925. The expenditures of the State of New York have been rising, whereas those of the nation have been falling--more gradually, of late. As against this fact it is fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York Legislature while Smith was governor, and it is the Legislature that votes appropriation bills. There is a curious game played in New York which consists of the Republican Legislature spending the money and then denouncing Smith...
...County Fair Jockey...