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...Union of Orthodox Congregations of America. At this dinner, carrying to an extreme the fad for inexpensive banqueting which has been previously evidenced, no food whatever will be served. The guests-10,000 will be invited-will nonetheless pay for their good dinner. The money which they expend will be put into a fund known as "The Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes Educational Endowment," and used to aid Talmud Torahs (schools for the children of Orthodox Jews), religious schools (for the children of Reformed Jews), and the publication of Jewish textbooks...
...will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power to so great a degree. They cannot sincerely believe that the passing of such examinations represents a worthy achievement; they will be unwilling to expend their energies in helping students to succeed in them; and they will refuse to attempt teaching where their chances of effective personal work are so small...
...populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
...period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into operation and mining resumed, Britain's foreign coal competitors would succeed disastrously in capturing and holding British markets...
Soviet concessions within Russia to U. S. citizens number at present 13. W. A. Harriman & Co. of Manhattan operate the chief of these concessions: a 20 year arrangement whereby they have agreed to expend $4,000,000 on developing manganese and peroxide deposits in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia and to pay royalties of from $3 to $9 per ton on the exported product to the Soviet government...