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...levied not just upon accounts of $5,000 or less, which are the only ones insured, but upon a bank's total deposits. That provision works to the advantage of small institutions most of whose deposits are in small accounts, and to the disadvantage of big banks, only a fraction of whose large corporate and business deposits are covered by the $5,000 limit. But having signed & sealed a truce with President Roosevelt last autumn, the bankers have discreetly bowed to a New Deal measure which many of them detest...
Students who become involved with the law in any manner except a criminal action may receive the services of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Law School. The members of the staff are all students but the record of cases shows that all but a small fraction are completed in favor of their clients...
...went most of the money for higher native schools. This has sent Indonesian youths rushing in droves to get their higher education in Japan, where they are told that Wilhelmina is a wicked old white millionairess and that Indonesia under Japanese rule would have to pay only a fraction of its present crushing, budget-balancing taxes. Even better, many Indonesians are now figuring out for themselves, would be self-rule. They babble ineffectually about "Indonesia for the Indonesians!" But native discontent is grim, real, threatening, and it springs from the impossibility of selling Indonesia's products in sufficient volume...
Direct labor is only a fraction of the cost of a job. Secretary Ickes' public works, by his own estimate, average $2,132 for every man employed because steel, stone, cement, lumber and other heavy materials have to be bought for such projects. Obviously President Roosevelt would have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level...
...motivated by reason Pareto had little patience, devoted much of his work to analysis of non-logical conduct, proposed to consider unscientific or illogical beliefs held by large numbers of people as social facts, of equal validity with facts established by scientific experiments. With but a small fraction of man's activity carried on in the light of actual conditions, most of his behavior has been dictated by irrational impulses to which Pareto gave the name "residues." In many instances complexes of feeling, instincts, "residues" persist from one age to another, while the rationalizations that explain them change. Together...