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...Were they to have paid the claims in respect to such damage, the wording of the policy conditions would have been set at naught and a precedent would be created which might well have proved disastrous to the conduct of insurance on sound lines...
Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury: "The Nation reviewed my book, Taxation: The People's Business. Said the reviewer: 'Mr. Mellon knows naught of economics and less of the shifting and incidence of taxation. His book omits a large part of the relevant facts, its reasoning is bad and its practical conclusions in general are dead wrong...
...spite of Jacob Ben-Ami and Blanche Yurka, Man and the Masses is, to the American eye and ear, full of sound and fury, and otherwise naught...
...study pills in the form of printed notes know that the former brings the higher grade. But in a large number of cases the grade does not count so long as it is "passing high." What is the use of wasting one's time in study when courses are naught but dusty, useless theory...
...Lord Curzon, offered to let American financial experts "sit in" on the solution of Europe's reparations problem (TiME, Nov. 5). Premier Poincare grumbled "Yes"? and added as an afterthought: " We have no liking for your suggestion." The result is that the whole proposal may come to naught. But meanwhile the question has been translated into terms of national politics by the group of League of Nations irreconcilables...