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Word: fairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While personally I have every reason to deplore and despise night clubs and their hostesses and patrons, still I do think you are a bit hard on women-we are only what men make and demand of us. Man supports these places and this type of woman, please be fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...fair guess that after this treaty is ratified the United States-which scrapped its ships and has constantly tried to reduce armaments-will be told by Great Britain-the nation having the world's greatest navy, and refusing to reduce at Geneva last summer-that because of this treaty we should make ourselves navally impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...made Carranza President," said Obregon to the late Spanish novelist Vincente Blasco Ibafiez, "I took Carranza in triumph from Vera Cruz to the Presidential chair. Afterwards it was my turn. Isn't that fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers in Washington, Chicago, Manhattan, Cleveland, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marts | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...action, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spurred a Grand Jury investigation of Mississippi's postmasters, 75 of whom were summoned last week to Biloxi to be scrutinized. As everyone knows, Mississippi's Negro Republicans, headed by National Committeeman Perry W. Howard, control their fair share of the South's 25,000 Federal jobs, which aggregate $35,000,000 per annum in salaries. Indictments began, arrests followed for "purchase and sale of public offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: The Sold South | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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