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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever and anon a case dustily tagged U. S. v. Jones & Co. is odorous of destiny. The Justices, sniffing the issue, settle deeper into their chairs, droop lower their traditionally half-closed eyelids, put more innocently their occasional question to distinguished counsel standing below the rail...
...Phelps-Dodge Corporation made distributions to its stockholders in 1917. Are they taxable at the 1917 rate, or the lower rate of 1916, or at no rate? (The estate of James Douglas, a recipient, regards them as nontaxable distribution of capital. A District Court has held them taxable at the 1916 rate...
...Berwind-White Coal Co., big Pennsylvania operators who supply the Manhattan subways, reduced wages 20%. Workers have apparently accepted it on the grounds that the lower wage scale will permit regular operation of the mines, hence greater pay in the long run. The Company has always insisted on open shop...
...Decatur, Ill., The Decatur Review segregated telegraphic crime news to a lower left-hand corner of the front page labelled "Crime." At the end of a week, said ministers: "Undue attention is called." Others commended...
Everyone can, of course, see what is going on in the stockmarket, at least on the surface. Trading is becoming less active, prices are stabilizing on a lower level than obtained a few months ago. This much every ten-share trader can see. But the inner significance of it, the perception of the economic forces which are responsible for it-these are less obvious...