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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...
...strange paradox that American universities make slight provision for the student who really knows how to study. Their rules, regulations, schedules, requirements, examinations--all are made and imposed for the men who either don't know how to study or won't study. Isn't it about time for Harvard, at least, to realize that its primary concern is for those who can and will take their opportunities seriously...
...wanted to see them. He wanted to end the anthracite strike which has endured since Sept. 1. What actually passed was indeed secret. Apparently the miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor Pinchot said nothing. He turned his back on Harrisburg, the state capital, and went to his Milford home to think matters over for ten days...
...retirement of the French domestic debt. Specific provisions: 1) A head tax of 20 francs (80c) a year on everyone in France. 2) A tax on all "real property" amounting in general to one and a half times the income derived from it in 1925, and payable either in a lump sum or in installments over 14 years. 3) A tax on all business, amounting to one-half the average yearly profits for the past three years, and payable in 14 yearly installments. 4) A tax upon all securities* and investments, providing that for 14 years 15% of their yield...
...Significance. The proposal in either form was unfavorably regarded by a large majority of the electorate, which sympathized with a Paris shopkeeper who suicided "because life would be unbearable under this tax." Great indignation was expressed over the proviso that the 3 million francs' worth of short term bonds which will be presented by their owners on Dec. 8, would be exchanged for other securities maturing later instead of being paid off. Cried many, "Is France thus to default for the first time since the Revolution...