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What the leaders really mean, and should say, for it is indictment enough, is that the economy of depression shows forth the hollowness of the ideal known as free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires...
...bailiff, police charged Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton...
...could have bought National Distillers last spring for $17 and sold it last week for $117; of how Canadian Industrial Alcohol jumped from $2.50 to $24. These were facts. But thicker flew the rumors of how this company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced that it might make gin as of old and its stock was given a whirl. Commercial Solvents and U. S. Industrial Alcohol are definitely entering the whiskey business...
...many complicated factors; but while one admits the sound advantages of individual discussion which have seeped down from the graduate seminar, one wonders about the advisability of applying the system too strictly to a general undergraduate course like Government 1. How favorably do the advantages which the student will reap from the new section system compare with these he gained from lectures, when, under Professor Munro, Theodore Roosevelt appeared on the platform? George L. Haskins...
...University of Southern California, forgo games in which some hundreds of thousands of dollars are realized at a single gathering? Perhaps they will in time, but the time may be in the long future. If one of good old colleges had the courage to do this, it would reap a reward beyond its wildest expectations. A little virtue in a naughty world is so resplendent...