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...three months the wife's attorney files her complaint at the court house. If her husband cooperates with her-and most of them do-he has al ready accepted service of the complaint, arranged for another lawyer to represent him, to plead nolo contendere. On hearing day the wife, her lawyer, the hus band's lawyer and the wife's witness who swears to her three months' state residence march up the 13 steps of the court house, climb to the second floor, enter the judge's chambers. The average hearing does not take more...
...have much pleasure in declaring India House open and I trust it may not only serve the imperial progress of that country, but, by spreading sound knowledge, may it foster between the peoples of India and Britain that 'wider sympathy' for which I pleaded many years ago and plead again today...
...imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production and require ever expanding foreign markets to absorb their high-speed manufactures. Seeing their business...
Lumber. House rate: $1.50 per 1,000 ft. Senate rate: free. With pitiful tales of 80,000 lumbermen jobless in the northwest, due to Canadian competition, did Chairman Hawley plead for the House rate. Sensing defeat, he offered to compromise at 75? per 1,000 ft. But the House, in a low-tariff mood, would not compromise, voted (250-to-143) for the Senate's freelisting of lumber...
...very special example of the case. The overwhelming conservatism of students at this University would probably make such a controversy impossible. The students here, being conservative, probably do not need a great deal of regulation; likewise, being conservative they are more likely even to ask for regulation than to plead against...