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...part of the national domain" by diverting the whole flow of the St. Lawrence; 2) the Government's permission had been illegally obtained; 3) Beauharnois officials had sought to corrupt the Government since then; 4) Senator McDougald, with no other than a promoter's interest in the concern, had, while a Senator of Canada, received from it large quantities of stock, worth some $30,000,000. Investigation had proved that Beauharnois had spent nearly $1,000,000 on the campaign funds of both Liberal and Conservative candidates who might be friendly to the project. Names involved: Senators Andrew...
Rural Education, President Hale's particular concern, had been chosen one of the chief subjects to be discussed. Some points...
...case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit" to occupy the bench on which she had so proudly sat for twelve happy years...
Governor Pinchot's first step toward patching up the quarrel was to call a secret meeting between President Samuel Pursglove of Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. (a $23,000,000 concern operating seven mines at present and second in the Area only to Pittsburgh Coal Co.) and United Mine Workers officials on June 18. United Mine Workers had already agreed with two smaller companies on a wage scale of 58? a ton for loading machine-mined coal, 78? a ton for "picked" coal. $4.80 for day work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last...
...Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world's most valued work? "Too much reading, even educational, may be stupefying and enslaving as the treadmill rounds of brute labor." Let the librarians concern them- selves with the few, to bring together the right book and the right reader. Let them deal only in the good, the first rate, and leave the "canned goods of literature" to the drugstores and chain libraries who give the public what it wants...