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...fact that Harvard should adopt such a measure appears strange to many of us undergraduates among whom the American language has become generally used. The prevalence of slang is so common to most of us that the speaker of pure English almost needs a code in order to carry on a conversation with...
...Wage Act of 1921 gave statutory powers in the matter of fixing wages to joint boards of miners and mine owners. In Germany the first step toward the legal recognition of the workers' right to participate in management dates from 1891 when an act was passed amending the Industrial Code...
...excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed several, though not all, of the legal hindrances to the expansion of the industry by private enterprise. The best proof of this is the fact that within three days after the new code had gone into effect...
...Colombian government's oil policy, as expressed in its code of December, 1919, is, in the opinion of competent experts, "sound in principle and workable in general details". That code is not unlike the United States oil land leasing bill, according to Judge J. W. Thompson of the United States Bureau of Mines. Hostile criticisms have been aroused, however, by the proposed assessment of high taxes varying from 10 to 20 percent of the gross product and by the close supervision of exports as a means of levying such taxes. It is evident from the above that the Colombian petroleum...
Four years ago at Syracuse University in a speech on basketball, I recommended that representatives of all independent teams and representatives of professional leagues, and colleges, universities and amateurs sit in conference to discuss rules, and draft one code of basketball rules to be sent broadcast throughout the country in order to eradicate the lack of uniformity and irregularities that exist in the game today. If this is done basketball will be put on a firmer basis, and as football, baseball, golf, tennis and other sports, become standardized...