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With the bond issue settled it was comparatively easy to split up the short-term offering into one set of 2% twelve-month certificates totaling $600,000,000 and another of 1½% six-month certificates amounting to $300,000,000. These were record-low interest rates for such securities but money was plentiful...
Results of the frequent three cornered elections in America reveal a pressing need for a similar system. The recent Republican mayoralty contest in Chicago is an excellent example of the ineffectiveness of the present methods. Victory was assured to one faction because a split opposition permitted a minority vote to elect. Under the alternative plan, the votes which were lost on the third candidate might have given victory to the second. That a minority man should be elected to office is almost a refutation of the fundamental principal of American Democracy...
...grapes. Mr. Gandhi began sending telegrams to Nationalist leaders all over India saying merely: "Come to me," and they set out. The Executive Committee of the Nationalist Congress unanimously informed St. Gandhi that they would abide absolutely by any decision he might make, thus scotching rumors of a Nationalist split. From St. Gandhi's friend, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, who attended the Indian Conference in London and arranged the Mutt & Jeff meetings, it was learned that last week the Viceroy: 1) Offered to reverse his previous refusal of St. Gandhi's request that British Indian police "brutality...
...invented the interferometre by which in the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 he split a ray of light in two and raced the fractions against each other. This single experiment disproved the theory of a drifting ether, broke down old scientific philosophy, triggered off Einstein's study of relativity, created a new conception of time, space, motion of reality itself...
...worried about split infinitives? If such a sentence as ''Our object is to further cement trade relations" gives you pause, hark to Mr. Thurber: "My own way out of all this confusion would be simply to say 'Our object is to let trade relations ride,' that is, give them up, let them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...