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...defendant clearing associations (named in the suit) without delivery of the amounts stated in the contracts." The Government goes on to quote the percentages of contracts actually consummated by delivery as being .0018% in November, 1922; .0023% in December, 1922; and so on up to March, 1923, with .0010 percent...
...main points in the budget are: a reduction from 5s to 4/6d in the pound on the income tax, a 50 percent reduction on corporation tax, a decrease in taxation on beer by 1d a pint, reduction of postal charges. No new taxation was introduced. The estimated revenue for the coming year is approximately $3,806,025,000 as against approximately $4,235,103,750 for last year's estimated revenue. The expenditure is figured at the approximate figure of $3,797,264,400 against last year's $4,235,103,750. Thus the Treasury has a small...
...professors derive no benefits from the injunction. But these note-sellers, like most note-sellers, entrapped their guileless and indolent prey by guaranteeing an extra 5 percent on the all-decisive law school examination. And misguided students, practically all first-year men, tell for the glittering bait, neglected their regular work, and accordingly failed...
Each year many members of the graduating class register at the office. One hundred and seventy-one 1922 graduates of all departments of the University took advantage of this service. Although the number of men who registered was about the same as in the previous year, a larger percent was placed by the office, in spite of the fact that there were comparatively few of the manufacturing companies running their training courses, and the condition of business in the textile, shoe and leather industries kept these factories from taking as many beginners as formerly. During the past year there...
...time must come when the pot shall be taken off the fire for a time, and the scum skimmed from the surface. By means of the three-percent Bill of 1921, the quantity of immigrants was limited, but the result has been to increase the number slipping in over the borders of Canada and Mexico, or slipping past the officials. It is a biological fallacy that we can assimilate indefinitely the vast numbers of immigrants of a different race which are continually pouring into the United States. When the nationalities of the immigrants corresponded to those already here, and when...