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...March 1915, George Busby Christian Jr., 42, was general sales manager of White Sulphur Stone Co. of Marion. Ohio. That year marked a hegira of Ohio Republicans to Washington, D. C. Harry Micajah Daugherty, a rising power in Ohio politics, was just sending a Marion publisher named Warren G. Harding to Washington as Senator...
There is little or no justification for such a policy, for in some fields, such as modern languages, the advantages to be gained from a year's sojourn in Europe are many and obvious; moreover, unless there should result a hegira to the Continent in large numbers--which would be extremely unlikely--it is difficult to see why the University should object to men financially able in taking advantage of this opportunity. It should abandon its obscurantist tactics and put the transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad...
When Counsel Untermyer discovered in what deadly earnest the brokers' hegira was going forward, and realized what it would do to realty values, he reconsidered his advice to the Mayor. Perhaps their taxes would be disastrous, after all. The Mayor's massive countenance clouded as he vetoed the taxes and rumbled resignedly: "I am confronted with a sitiation beyond my control, wherein serious and pressing conclusions must be made...
...share stock transfer tax and 5% levy on brokers' gross income, not only the Stock Exchange but the Curb and Produce Exchanges, the over-the-counter dealers and all appendages of Manhattan's vast securities business were ready to join the Jersey hegira. For Mayor O'Brien had inadvertently brought home a great truth to the men who buy & sell the nation's securities: that whether or not Mayor O'Brien's taxes were imposed, security dealers would be far better off in New Jersey than in New York State, 1) They would avoid...
...French Alsace and the southern Rhine. Last week Palatinate Commissioner Birker issued an order freezing all postal savings and bank accounts of Jews in the province until their outstanding debts had been paid. This was explained as a move to prevent a wholesale dodging of obligations by a Jewish hegira over the French Border...