Word: markets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pierce, the second speaker on the negative, maintained that municipal ownership would be unprofitable, first because the city would have to buy the present system, with its perpetual franchises, at market value, which is $509,000,000; and secondly because the city would have to allow for depreciation out of the earnings of the system. He pointed out the fact that the present owners do not do this, but pay for depreciation by selling stocks and bonds, a policy which the city could not pursue without continually increasing its debts...
...question. For five years he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President McKinley and President Roosevelt, and during that time repeatedly proposed alternations in the banking laws that would make currency more elastic and better able to respond to the periodic fluctuations and sudden emergencies in the money market. Mr. Gage has also been president of the largest bank in Chicago, three times president of the American Bankers' Association, and is now president of the United States Trust Company in New York...
...Gore Hall library has recently received a number of interesting and valuable books on the history and antiquities of Scotland, purchased by means of money recently donated for the purpose by Mr. Alexander Cochrane of Boston. Among the collection are Scottish Market Crosses by J. W. Small, the Memorials of Montrose in two volumes, published by the Maitland Club of Edinburgh, a History of the Frasers of Lovat by Alexander Mackenzie, Epitaphs and Inscriptions of Scotland by Andrew Jervise and Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings in two volumes by John Kay of Edinburgh...
...following books have been added to the Union Library during the past week: Connolly, "The Deep Sea Toll;" Frederic, "The Market Place," Hawkin. "Reminiscences;" Holleman "Inorganic Chemistry;" Howells, "London Films;" Osler, "Aequaminitas and Other Essays;" Roosevelt, "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter; " Stanwood, "James G. Blainc...
...following articles: "How far an act may be a Tort because of the Wrongful Motive of the Actor," by J. B. Ames '68, dean of the Law School: "Interference" with Contracts and Business in New York," by E. W. Huffent, dean of the Cornell College of Law: "The Closed Market, the Union Shop, and the Common Law," by W. L. Lewis, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School...