Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing days of the 1928 first Congressional session he filibustered mightily against passage of the bill to construct Boulder Dam on the theory that populous California would not pay arid and thinly settled Arizona a fair share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...
That night she and her fellow wanderers slept in Madison, Ind., next night in the Blackstone at Chicago. There she delivered a Simmons Bed broadcast, lunched with Rufus Dawes & wife, went to the Fair, smiled her broadest at newshawks when she told them: "Please don't feel badly if I have to evade you, because that's what I'm going to do from now on. This is not an official visit. When I'm with the President it's different." Bobbing up five hours later in front of the Fair's Administration Building, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by reporters...
Actually the Securities Exchange Act will not go into effect until Sept. 1, the deadline for registration of stock and exchanges. The Commission has no technical jurisdiction over any but registered stocks which are bought and sold in interstate commerce, cannot put its rules of fair practice into operation until registration begins. Its margin requirements do not take effect until Oct. 1. The S.E.C. will take over enforcement of the Securities Act of 1933, now under the Federal Trade Commission, Sept. 2. But lest pool operators try to make a killing before the Securities Exchange Law becomes effective, Chairman Kennedy...
...much business is ever transacted at N. A. P. A. meetings. There would have been discussion of the deficit, but the treasurer forgot to send in a report. A local bishop made a speech on the Philosophy of Amateur Journalism. Most time was spent frolicking at the Fair, hobnobbing among a. j.'s who know each other only by exchange of papers during the year. The 300 members publish about 150 journals, each of which is sent to every other member through a central mailing bureau. A member's packet of journals would include such items...
...last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy day. Of such aestive pretties, The Road to Nowhere and London Bridge is Falling are fair samples...