Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown nine has been hampered for lack of first rate hurlers. Billings, last year's ace, is now starring with the Detroit Tigers. Lingham is slated to do mound duty for Brown today...
...relate, the American press has never been freed of racial prejudice. Your worthy weekly, too, is guilty of bigotism. You are not a Protestant paper: you are not afraid of the Klan. You must be Catholic. At any rate, you never have given the Jews a square deal; you have always begrudged them every little bit of the sparing praise you have ever accorded them. __ In your article on Yehudi Menuhin [TIME, Feb. 6, p. 24], the Jewish violin prodigy, you gave a sketch of his life; you sang his praises; you told us how he was a Tartar...
...Resolved that the Commerce Committee should investigate the shooting of a Niagara Falls citizen by a Coast Guardsman (see PROHIBITION). ¶ Passed Senator Brookhart's resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate chain stores. ¶ Approved the House bill authorizing reduction of the air mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
...measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have been either sarcasm or concern, he added that he was surprised at Henry Ford's statement that he [Mr. Ford] was 1,000,000 cars behind orders. Said Mr. Raskob: "I thought at the rate of 8,000** cars a day Ford would be caught up by this time...
...needy borrower in every respect. If he has no willing friends to countersign his note to a "Morris Plan" (7%) or "National City-Marine Trust Plan" (6%) bank, he must pawn his household goods, automobile or other personal possessions with whatever moneylender he can wheedle, at the highest rate the lender dares command. Nor is it easy to get endorsers, since persons with sufficient money sense to become acceptable guarantors are not promiscuous with their signatures...