Word: fee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...timber limits to private companies, allowing them to draw on Canada's inexhaustible resources to supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachussetts and Long Island...
Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of 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...
...Such a management assumes that the only durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
...sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization Fee...
Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif...