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...petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner of Education, has stated...
Meanwhile the Rotterdam strike left Dutch shipping completely constricted. Despite brave announcements from the New York office that the strike would not affect sailings of the Holland America Line, neither the Rotterdam nor the Volendam was able to leave her home port last week. A government commission announced that it could settle the strike if owners agreed to maintain the present wage scale until March. Only five companies agreed...
...been at a premium, money which it borrowed to lend to countries which it has forgiven their debts, could not be regarded as undeserving of confidence whatever happens. Even in the unlikely event of British national credit being impaired by cancellation, it is improbable that private credit would be affected. Mr. Barrett must have, imbibed some of the "acid" of his "considerations." The Ottawa conference is not an attempt to affect American trade. If such trade is affected it will be incidental to, and not the aim of, a conference whose objective is a revival of British trade. The conference...
Sample Life, How would a Socialist regime affect, say, a lawyer who lives on a 25-acre estate in New Jersey, motors to work in Manhattan, makes $50,000 per year from a corporation practice? First the rental-value tax on his estate would be so burdensome that he would have to dispose of all his land, except that on which his house stood. His servants would all belong to a union; if he wanted his breakfast before 8 or his dinner after 7 he would have to get it himself. He would drive to town in a car built...
...spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations they intend to exchange views with one another with complete candor concerning, and to keep each other mutually informed of, any questions coming to their notice similar in origin to that now so happily settled at Lausanne which may affect the European regime. It is their hope that other governments will join them in adopting their procedure...