Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, of "pusillanimously permitting Washington to write our tariff act!" Matter of fact, under Mr. King, the Canadian tariff was an automatically sliding scale of "countervailing duties"-that is, if the U. S. duty on Canadian cold storage eggs were raised to x cents a dozen, bang would go Canada's duty on U. S. cold storage eggs to x cents. All this Mr. Bennett vowed to change. Proudly last week he pointed out that Canada's new duties are "fixed/' not ''countervailing"-but inspection shows that most of them...
Commercial Schools. Principal William Henderson Pringle of the City of Birmingham Commercial College thought that British commercial education could best be served by establishing half a dozen schools in strategic English towns. Paid for by the government, the colleges could specialize in teaching business methods of those industries which were prominent in the different areas...
...President's decision did not instantly clear away all his difficulties. The Federal Reserve Act prohibits the appointment of more than one board member from any of the dozen reserve districts throughout the land. New York is already represented on the Board by Vice Governor Edmund Plate, Poughkeepsie publisher, onetime (1913-21) Congressman. Last week the President was pictured as trying to "circumvent" the law in such a way as to get Mr. Meyer on the board. Circumvention, however, was unnecessary when Vice Governor Platt conveniently resigned to join Marine Midland Corp., thus making way on the Board...
...dozen able divinity students of assorted Protestant denominations, summer-schooling at Chicago, last week came to an astounding conclusion: that Christ is growing increasingly unpopular in the U. S., not simply the sufferer of public apathy but the subject of downright disfavor...
...dozen assembled for a dinner in the parish house of St. Chrysostom's Protestant Episcopal Church, at present Chicago's most fashionable. Host was John Crippen Evans, 40, assistant rector of St. Chrysostom's and religious editor of the Chicago Tribune. He had invited them to his cenacle in an "attempt to feel the pulse of young theological students...