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...hiring stenographers, I have found that the careless reader is invariably the careless speller. One of the tests I have used in hiring stenographers has been to have them read perhaps out of the editorials of the day's newspaper. I find careless reading connotes sloppy expression, indifferent spelling, indirect mental activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...successful actions taken by the National Unions and by the C. I. E. in order to obtain reduced rail-road fares and visa fees were, though indirect, nevertheless essential helps to our students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFEDERATION TO SPONSOR STUDENT OLYMPIAD AT ROME IN 1927 WRITES DEAK | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

...week of drastic emendation the estimated yield of the measure had been increased from 1,600,000,000 francs to 4,985,000,000?still at least one billion short of Government requirements. As expected, the increase was obtained by grafting on the bill Finance Minister Doumer's hated "indirect taxes" (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante) although the Chamber has been refusing for weeks to down this bitter dose. As the week ended, the Senate completed its salvage work and sent the bill back to the Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: La Semaine du Parlement | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes back to the Chamber it will embody most of the measures for "indirect taxation" desired by Finance Minister Doumer (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Record Fall | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Cartel des Gauches (coalition of the Left Parties) headed by former Premier Herriot. Opposed to the Cartel's bill (increasing indirect taxation) is the Government's bill (increasing direct taxation). The latter was not debated last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A la Chambre | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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