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...famed as Chicago for financial difficulties, New York, able by law to borrow up to 10% of assessed value of city property, has managed over the course of years to pile up a per capita debt of $206.74 (five times that of Chicago)-for borrowing was the easiest way for Tammany to provide plenty of pork for the city pork barrel without arousing citizens by putting high taxes higher or making the working man pay more than 5? for the world's longest subway ride. Last spring came the season of reckoning. The banks grew niggardly of further loans...
...Bonds. The firm as a wholesaler of securities floats bond issues through syndicates. Because of its prestige it gets the pick of the business, the securities which are easiest to sell, of foreign governments (of England and Germany, for example), of great corporations without number. The margin of profit is small but because it gets the cream of the securities, the turnover is sure and rapid. If an issue of tens of millions can be floated over night, what if the profit is only $100,000? That is enough for a night's work...
...looking for an interesting way of passing off his science requirement, Chemistry A, although not the easiest course in the world, is an excellent choice. For the man concentrating in science of any sort it is, if not a necessity, extremely worthwhile and profitable...
...there are several immediate motives behind these pogroms which reveal a method in their apparent madness. For one thing, Hitler means to consolidate his forces around him, and the easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician...
Democratization of the language of Sam'l Johnson and Matthew Arnold along the line of popular usage is at best an unwelcome choice of the easiest path. There is some question whether this National Council, headed by Miss Center, is the best arbiter of usage; Miss Center herself unwittingly exposes an ignorance of the etymology of English by branding the phrase "go slow" as traditionally ungrammatical. As for "integrating and directing," even those who dwell in cloistered academic security are able to say that English teachers would have their time pretty well occupied if they attempted to remove the more...