Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Face value of note...
...satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff let the jurors out. The foreman unfisted a moist crumpled note, handed it to the clerk. A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read his third death sentence...
Governor Ely's investigation of Massachusetts' penal institutions brings again to public view the problem of what is to be done with those who break laws. It is interesting to note that the investigation is warranted in large part by two allegations diametrically opposed in spirit. One charge is that women in Sherborn are made to shovel coal, the other, that men married during their terms are allowed honeymoons from the prison. That is to say, objections are made on the one hand that the system is too cruel, on the other, too kind. It would seem from other reports...
...significant to note that, since 1929, the trade of the United States with South America has declined 82 per cent, whilst the total foreign trade went down only 69 per cent. This starting decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary...
...rights. This autumn Humble Oil & Refining Co., subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, closed the deal. In exchange for a low rental on drilling rights (13? an acre) Humble takes over the ranch's en tire funded debt (some $3,000,000) on a 20-year note, the interest at 5% payable at the end of the period. This means a yearly income somewhat over $130,000 (figuring the ranch's drilling acres at 1,000,000) in addition to the usual royalty of one barrel of oil in every eight taken out of the ground...