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...assessing income not stimulating to industry, falls down in practice because of the difficulties attending, its administration. In view of the fact that the stated capitalization of most corporations is largely a matter of accident, it follows that a just estimation of the actual return in excess of normal profit cannot in many cases be attained. The evaluation of the surplus income presents a problem no complex that even the Treasury Department can offer no general solution. The continual change in the personnel of that branch of the government leads to contradictory rulings and an irritating vacillation of policy...
Yale, conservatism, and a good education and then the name Yale will stamp you as normal, manly, and a good man. Then it is also easy to tread in footsteps left by uncles, cousins...
...lies not in the ownership of some eighty square miles of territory, but in the fact that the island is the key to telegraphic communication with the Far East. "All messages for the Dutch Indies," President Mackay of the Commercial Cable Company has testified, "were sent via Yap under normal conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control...
...Sayler, who was in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and found the theatres the most normal institutions of that land, will illustrate his speech by lantern slides, giving an intimate view of the work of the Bolshevik regime...
...developed at any such rate unless the factor of incentive, such as we find during the hours of competitive play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner in which the muscular system is called upon in cases where quick or unusual action is essential...