Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON questionnaire taken last year and involving over 1000 undergraduates, it was ascertained that more than 85 per cent of Harvard upperclassmen indulge in some sort of extra-thirds of the group declared that their activity or activities were fun and worth the time they demanded...
...Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will be cut from $139,247,313 to $62, 291, 827, its annual fixed interest charges from $1,705,532 to $767,071. Common stockholders will not get a cent; preferred stockholders will swap their shares (par value: $46,073,500) for new common stock (par value: $11,518,375); first-mortgage bondholders will get new stocks and bonds and 67.92% of the voting power...
...people may be suckers for free lunches and one-cent sales, but they do not go out of their way to get free education. Nor do they often work up an appetite for warmed-over ideas. Consequently, the gratuitous revival last week of a school of thought that had its heyday more than 40 years ago made news. As the Henry George School of Social Science bought a $50,000 building in Manhattan for schoolhouse and headquarters, disciples of Georgism disclosed that the single-tax doctrine today has some 21,000 student followers throughout the U. S., is growing rapidly...
...England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped to the stand to support him. Said Lord Horder: "As far as I can judge, the facts would have...
...getting into trouble." For contempt of court in connection with an injunction restricting picketing, the union's young (27) international president, James B. Carey, and two other officials, were fined $500, given six months in jail, told by Judge Homer A. Fuller that they need not pay a cent or serve a day if they called off their strike. As astounded by this remarkable punishment as attorneys in Judge Fuller's courtroom, C. I. O.'s Carey appealed, chose imprisonment but was released on bond, announced: "I was faced with six months in jail . . . [or] a lifetime...