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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those thoughtful gentlemen who wander about the fringes of the multitude, banding out extra paper and maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality, mean nothing to the student whose eager hand can hardly wait to disclose a mind packed with information. It is only to the unfortunate who sees the lower gulfs yawning before him, and averts his eye in dismay, that external matters are of concern...
...there was a tax bill before the Senate. It developed that the Democratic and farmers' friend strategy was to get the Senate on record generally in favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
...begin the story, he was the $18-a-week clerk in his brother-in-law's cigar store in Park Row, lower Manhattan, 37 years...
...Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many legal difficulties developed that the case has become seriously considered by jurists as come seriously considered by jurist as a test of the rights of American citizens. Particularly of Orientals, whose entrance into this country has been illegal; and the review before...
...With interest at 4%, billion-per-annum reduction of the debt means easing the public burden 34 cents per capita per annum. In practice, the annual burden per capita is being reduced more swiftly than that because when an astute Secretary runs the Treasury, he refunds the debt at lower rates as he goes along. Therein lies the banker's art, to buy in 4¼% Second Liberty Loan with $400,000,000 of borrowed money for which you only pay 3?%, as Secretary Mellon did last year. This year, the 4¼% Third Liberty Loan will occupy Secretary Mellon's attention...