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...ingenious overcoming of the interest rate in selling credit to the wayfaring man. . . . The mechanic or clerk ... to . . . buy a car, or bury his grandmother, must pay anywhere from 10 to 100% per annum for the privilege...
This was followed by the Dawes Plan that Germany pay 595 millions per annum for an indefinite number of years (1924). Great feature of the ensuing Young Plan was that it purported to fix 58½ years definitely as the time over which Germany would be required to pay a total of some 27 billions (TIME, June...
Lobbyist Wilson is paid $6,000 per annum by the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals...
...State of Vera Cruz the legal limit already enforced on priests and churches is one per 100,000 population- twice as strict as that voted by the Federal Congress. Last week the Legislature of the State of Morelos passed a bill to tax each cleric 300 pesos ($120) per annum. In the State of Coahuila cinemas with religious themes were banned. Debate in the Federal Congress for a fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult...
...dispraise of "industrializing education" and "unionizing professors," publication of which coincided with the A. A. U. P.'s meeting in Cleveland (Time, Jan, 12). Last week he performed again. In a letter to the Weekly he calculated the maintenance cost of new Yale buildings at 6 per cent per annum, which would represent the income from a fund greater than the whole original building cost not, as is generally assumed, the income from a fund equal to 25 per cent of the original cost. Professor Henderson found "that each additional million cubic feet. . .in buildings draws from general income...