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...Tower Building suite with its airy outlook and fine furniture, Chairman Wickersham last week hired out of his own pocket a tiny office with two second-hand desks and chairs in the Walker-Johnson Building, close to the White House. There with two assistants and a clerk he read proof on the Commission's unfinished reports. In 25 months the Commission had spent $475,000 of its $500.000 appropriation. It had made four reports to the President : 1) Prohibition (preliminary); 2) Prohibition (final); 3) crime statistics; 4) prosecutions...
...have no proof," retorted M. Laval, "that there has been mismanagement of the Campagnie Generate. By such insinuations you serve the ends of foreign competing companies...
...Royal Family, laboring to preserve their impartiality and promote the unity of Belgium, had recently grown unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...
Most thoroughgoing newspaper in the world is the august New York Times. Last week on a financial page appeared hilt-high proof of its claim to that title. Under the headline CALL LOANS IN JUNE HELD AT 4% RATE appeared a story beginning: "Call Loan rates on the New York Stock Exchange were at H per cent throughout all of June. . . . The renewal average for call loans in June was 1.500 per cent. . . ." Below came a complete, full-length table showing the % call loan rate on each & every one of June's 30 days, arranged in this manner: June...
Professor Boas growled back: "I challenge him to prove that race antipathy is implanted by nature and not the effect of social causes which are active in every closed social group, no matter whether it is racially heterogeneous or homogeneous." He offered as proof the willing miscegenation of whites, Indians and Negroes in Central and South America, of white lust for Negro slave wenches in the oldtime U. S. South...