Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Early last week Major Curran reported his progress. He published the names of the first 70 eminent citizens to be installed on the A. A. P. A.'s directorate, which is to number 100. Dry citizens were startled to discover the calibre of the persons whom Major Curran had been able to enlist. The most prominent patron of the Anti-Saloon League lately has been Sebastian Spering Kresge, the 5-and-io-cent man. Now, as antagonists of Mr. Kresge, the A. A. P. A. points...
...receipts at ?812.497,000, thus leaving an expected surplus of ?6,302,000; 2) Drastic economies will be effected by discharging 11,000 civil officials during the coming year; 3) The exemptions from the income tax already extended to parents, in proportion to the number of their children, are now sharply increased. Thus a single child, which brought an exemption of ?36 ($175), last year, is at present worth ?60 ($292) in exemptions. Additional children are worth ?50 ($243); 4) Trifling alterations in the British tariff schedules will result, for example, in a fall of one farthing ?c) per pound...
...number of Communists holding seats in the Chamber of Deputies was halved last week as Frenchmen balloted overwhelmingly for candidates favorable to Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...
...objects of this study are briefly, four in number: to learn whether criminals as a group are distinguished from law-abiding citizens by any hereditary physical defects or by any bodily anamolies which are due to disease or malnutrition; to ascertain whether there is any relation between the physical and mental traits of offenders: to discover any connection between the nature of the criminal's offense and his mentality; and to examine the relation of race and nationality to crime in this country...
...side of race and nationality, particular emphasis is being placed upon the study of negro and Mexican delinquents in the South and in the Southwest, and upon a number of immigrant groups in other parts of the country. This study will also include the gathering of comparable samples of the law-abiding population...