Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been "kicked upstairs." President Coolidge had appointed him to a vacancy in the U. S. Court of Claims for no better reason, it seemed, than that Mr. Green had chronically disagreed with Secretary Mellon's ideas on taxation, particularly the inheritance tax, which the Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
...mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease it. The European plan of secondary education will need much grafting with American educational flora before it can be safely transplanted to a loam so rich...
...times has proved too strong to be longer withstood. The depreciation of the dollar since the beginning of the century was the cause of the increase of tuition a few years ago, but neither the class nor the number of applicants was then affected, and there is no reason to think that they will suffer from the present change, which was found necessary despite the generosity of the alumni and friends of the University...
...business conditions as they are at present, it is doubtful whether the office will be able to place all men who come to it for summer work. This will be particularly true in the case of men who put off registering until late in May or June. For this reason, the office urges all men desiring such jobs to register on or before March 15, and then keep in close touch with it, if they wish to secure desirable positions. These registrations may be effected at any time between 9 and 5 o'clock daily...