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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long and short haul clause ought not to be maintained. Best single references: Hadley's Railroad Transportation, chap. vi; testimony of Mr. W. G. Raoul in the Report of Senate Committee on Railroads...
References: Richard H. Dana's ballot act; opinions of HOn. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. James A. McGeough, Hon. Wm. E. Russell, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, and others in Boston Globe, Feb. 23, 1888; English statutes VII Chap. 33 (1872). North...
...leave their doors unlatched. One of the "goodies" in Weld was unfortunate enough a day or two ago to have some light-fingered wanderer walk off with the bunch of keys. On this account a carpenter has been employed on Yale locks throughout the entry, so that the brilliant chap who imagined that he possessed the means of entering any room at his convenience may be successfully outwitted. Although there is a strict injunction against all tramps and peddlers being allowed inside the college building, nevertheless they will sometimes gain an entrance and generally manage to make the best...
General refererences: U. S. Senate Reports, 46th Cong., 3d Sess., No. 837: Lockwood's Abolition of the Presidency, chap. X.; Contemporary Review, Dec. 1885, p. 864; National Review, Nov., 1864, p. 1; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1886, p. 542; International Review...
...change to be effective implies, in time, a responsible ministry.- Bagehot's Eng. Const., chap. on the cabinet; Nation...