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...There are a least two ways of getting rid of judges," he declared. "One is to take them out and shoot them, as they are reported to do in at least one other country. The other way is more genteel, but no less effective. They are kept on he public payroll but their votes are cancelled...
...situation. The Independence Act was supported in Congress by two groups, one inspired by international altruism, the other inspired by national selfishness. Those inspired by selfishness were Congressmen, mostly from sugar-producing States, who wanted to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff barrier so as to get rid of business competitors. Into the law they wrote provisions which would institute a series of export taxes on Philippine goods shipped to the U. S.-the equivalent of a U. S. tariff-beginning at 5% in 1940 and mounting 5% a year. Since the U. S. is the Philippines...
Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
...equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime fleet of 162 ships left by the Shipping Board. The temporary commissioners announced in January that none of these 17-year-old tubs, unused for ten years, would be sold since that would be a "deterrent" to new building. Most will be scrapped, some kept afloat...
...sisters' Tack holdings at a profit, he failed to do as much for Del Baker. Through friends of Mickey Cochrane, Jerry McCarthy got another Tack customer in the person of a Mrs. Kathryn Smith, who bought 100 shares at $17.75 per share, saw it go up, finally got rid of it at $16.50 because she "didn't want to have it around." A sprightly witness was Mrs. Smith last week...