Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only limit. In the case of the Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska, the Court held that the territory could legally compel fish canneries which pack large amounts of fish to pay a higher tax per pound than canneries with smaller outputs. The Court declared that the tax was fair because it tended to preserve the subject (fish) of taxation...
...last week General Lassiter felt obliged to introduce a resolution before the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (of which he is chairman) intimating that the holding of a plebiscite is impossible in view of the failure of Chile to guarantee fair voting conditions to anti-Chilean Tacna-Aricans. After several days of hesitation the commission adopted the motion...
...also seems to me that your non-union workers are not fair to the union, for I do not think it can be denied that the union is largely responsible for the living wage which printers are earning at the present time; yet the non-union men are enjoying the higher standard of living without contributing to the organization which has made it possible...
...legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While I am personally against confiscation, I must observe that it is not fair to call the possibly forthcoming confiscatory vote of the now sovereign people an act of 'robbery...
...Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs as their own time to break loose and wreck a city. It is too bad that some of the news on busy days can't be set in the refrigerator and saved up for display...