Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began by buying a few politicians. His system was a miracle of simplicity. He found a good Klansman who wanted to run for office and paid his campaign expenses always with the understanding that his candidate, when elected and in control of public moneys, should repay him at the rate of three to one, or 300%. If the candidate lost he owed nothing...
...Bank of France and its subsidiaries have recently begun to purchase gold with paper francs at approximately the rate prevailing throughout international exchange...
There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text...
...Field '26 in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. During the past summer, he and B. S. Wood '25 spent a considerable amount of time studying the radical changes occurring in Glacier Bay, Alaska, where with a few exceptions, the ice-fields are retreating at a very rapid rate...
Whether or not the labor leaders perceived the futility of this course is a question. At any rate, the whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...