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...long as the lawmaking mills grind, the fog of uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
...replaced Summers in the Belmont not after the third tally, the Yardlings were unable to score again until the middle of the third period. Monahan came up with four or five brilliant saves, but for the most part had an easy time repulsing the Yardlings' attack which failed to function effectively. With the schoolboys tiring in the third period, Coach Hodder's team ran its total to five...
Later, Mr. Rascoe claims, Mr. Annenberg was hired away from Hearst by the Tribune to perform the same function and "in the course of this . . . war between newspapers and their gunmen, at least 30 of whom, were under the leadership of . . . the plaintiff [Mr. Annenberg] . . . 27 newspaper dealers, newsboys or others were killed" fostering in Chicago "a great amount of open lawlessness...
...businessmen the Recession was entirely too serious for gloating. They expected trouble, though not so soon, and if it was welcomed at all it was only in the sense that they hoped it would drive home to the Administration and the public the obvious fact that Capitalism cannot function indefinitely without the confidence of Capital...
...estimated 85% of what modern man learns is taken in by eye, most of it by reading. Despite radio's rise, the function of reading is growing. Since the turn of the Century U. S. publications for the adult have grown 170%, and more and more reading is necessary to make a living. Today a private secretary has to do some 500% more reading than in 1900. Because inefficient reading is responsible for 60% of all failures in school, $612 of every $1,000 spent for primary schooling is spent to teach reading. Yet one-half the adult population...