Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phillips Brooks House will begin its annual clothing collection today. The drive will last four days, the final collections being made Thursday noon. Current text books, especially those of the elementary courses, are much in demand for the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library. Old clothes, overcoats, shoes and magazines are in the greatest demand. Articles will be sent to the Associated Charities of Cambridge and Boston, the Morgan Memorial, the Salvation Army and other like institutions. The canvassers will collect from the rooms assigned them on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Thursday afternoon a wagon will...
...reply to a question as to what he thought of the condition of the European countries. Mr. Babson declared that he had felt all along that France would not collect from Germany because of the later country's poverty. The fact that France's prosperity seems to depend only on the sudden recovery of Germany, explains why we are not buying francs, Mr. Babson said...
...organized November 11, 1920, the second anniversary of the Armistice. Its immediate program is to bring about the organization of similar clubs at other colleges in the country. With them it will vigorously support any forthcoming proposals to enter the League of Nations. The club plans also to collect original documents bearing on President Wilson's work at the Peace Conference, with especial regard to his work in drafting the Covenant of the League. It will deposit these documents in the Widener Library for future use by historians and will it self finance research based upon them. This work will...
...would encourage the formation of combinations, to the exclusion of the small manufacturer and the middleman; it would tax concerns regardless of how profitable they are it is, therefore, not adapted to American business conditions. The retail sales tax, on the other hand, eliminates this difficulty by proposing to collect revenue upon the product at the final sale only. But from its very nature it is open to extreme evasion without a large corps of collectors...
...most optimistic estimates indicate that only a negligible fraction of the sum due from Germany can be obtained from duties on German exports and imports," he continued. "The further attempt to collect from importers a part of the price paid for German goods cannot possibly succeed. It cannot be fitted in to the general mechanism by which foreign trade is financed. It would put new and formidable obstacles in the way of the development of that export trade upon which Germany's ability to make Reparation payments depends...