Word: claime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Railroads claim that the fixing of rates deprives them of property. In Minnesota the Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the rates on milk shipments and car haulage. The Court decided that the Commission was not clothed with judicial power, and that the railroad was constitutionally entitled to reasonable profits. The question was summarized in the Nebraska Maximum Rate Case. The court held that the matter of compensation over total expense was a matter to be determined by public policy and not by fixed rates. In short, the property right of the railroad is the right to operate economically with...
...will run two laps each, and an additional sprinter, who will make the final spurt for the tape. There are no regulations other than that only bona fide editors may compete, and that the Monthly's team must not cut corners nor the Lampoon men lag behind and then claim the race. The struggle for the pole promises to be exceedingly keen, but no ungentlemanly conduct will be tolerated. In order, however, that the final grand procession may not be too bitter, a special finishing lap has been arranged, which will add materially to the success of the afternoon...
...personal investigation of the wage question in the United States and has found that the average wage of the working man does not exceed $6.75, while in Lawrence, the textile workers receive less than $6 a week. These conditions exist in spite of the protective tariff which manufacturers claim is primarily to protect labor. Due to the high protective tariff, we are now in a condition of over-production, which forces us to compete with other countries in the world's market, and which is also responsible for our industrial crises, another of which Mr. Berger predicts will come...
...third place, the government which we want must, in order to maintain its claim to be called a government, act as public opinion dictates...
...gathered together for any cause, academic, social, political, athletic or literary, their petitions for the use of College buildings have hitherto been granted. But if numbers is the test of the status of a society as a Harvard organization, then this League has as good if not better claim to the use of the name "Harvard" than most undergraduate organizations...