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...possible in executing the law under existing conditions. The reported use of public money in a direct attempt to steady the market may turn out to have been justified. . . . Possibly it will make a bad matter worse. ... If . . . the Farm Board demonstrates . . . that even the United States Treasury cannot maintain a fixed price for farm produce ... it will be worth all it costs...
Half the States and the District of Columbia had been fully counted last week, showed a population gain of 17%. If the other States maintain that average, continental U. S. has grown from 105,710,620 people in 1920 to 124,104,267 people this year...
...year for their daughters' tuition and living expenses at Poughkeepsie, an increase of $200. Town girls will be charged a tuition fee of $500. Trustees explained that the college's additional income will relieve "the strain on overburdened endowments," "pay better salaries to teachers, maintain the institution's physical property. In justification of their move, the Trustees pointed out that Vassar's clientele had suffered nothing from the last tuition increase (1925). They cited the words of Founder Matthew Vassar: "I go for the best means, cost what they may, and corresponding prices in return...
...State of New York as he died therein intestate and without relatives. "The contention that he may have been a subject of the King of Italy and not of New York," said the Court, "must be overruled. . . . His intent to abandon his domicile of origin and to establish and maintain a domicile in this country is clearly established...
...champion of Manhattan's taxi industry he had to keep vigorously alive Taxi Weekly's battle for limitation of cab licenses, for higher rates.* He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting elements in the city's cab business: the driver, the owner-driver, the fleet owner, the company operator...