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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief constitutes the most important obligation of the next Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Speech | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Edouard Herriot, disgruntled incumbent of the Ministry of Education, fallen leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, and previously twice Prime Minister, to Cologne, Germany, where he grew still more peevish from tramping past exhibits at the International Press Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Hot | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...represent 80% of the electorate. Six days prior to the polling date, they cabled to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, the last of several fruitless appeals for U.S. intervention, declaring that in the event of refusal "your excellency's desire for a pure and fair election in Panama is impossible to realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Pure and Fair | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...better of her. She took her courage in her two hands and appeared at the ball. She half-expected to be the butt of jibes and ridicule. To her amazement she found herself the hit of the evening. Her triumph was so overwhelming that it aroused the jealousy of fair countesses and members of the social set who expended lavish sums on their toilettes for the evening. Journalists flocked about her, cabled abroad the news of her mauve hair. Next day pastel locks were the rage. Madame Charlotte liked hers so well on second thought that she decided to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...being jailed by scores last week in preparation for a presidential election, that the U. S. had received complaints, but perceived no disturbing evidence, as yet, of electoral frauds in Panama. As in the rase of Nicaragua, the U. S. has a treaty right to see that Panama has fair elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Kellogg | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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