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...suit of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Plaintiff in Error v. the State of Kansas was thrown out of the U. S. Supreme Court last week for lack of jurisdiction. Hence, the decision of the lower court stands. This decision says that no foreign corporation, whether organized for profit or charity, can carry on any activities in the State of Kansas without the consent of the State Charter Board-except such corporations as are protected by the interstate commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. The significance: many another state may follow Kansas' legal action in ousting...
...main considerations moved the Faculty to its decision. It believes that the teaching staff has too much to do and that the students will profit by less instruction and more independent study...
Gibbs then made the point that "The Virgin Man", the recently censored New York play, was about to be taken off because it was a poor play and was returning no profit. Then the police stepped in, and the rush became general...
...great, although rarely admitted, obstacle to consolidations of Christian denominations, is property. No owner of tangible property likes to trade without profit. None the less, Universalists and Congregationalists have sought union. Since 1925 a commission of the National Council of Congregational Churches has conferred with a like commission of the Universalist General Convention...
...could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale of parts. In 1919 its parts profits were $80,000,000. Now there are 12,000,000 Fords on the road which need supplies. Wealthy Fools. It is "folly to make fools wealthy," Henry Ford told his inventor, Italian-born Antonio Felix Pajalich, asserts the inventor...