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...factor was a cut in Japanese deep-sea fishing, which used to decimate the salmon runs before they reached Alaska. Last May the Russians offered to let the Japanese, excluded from their traditional fishing grounds since 1945, return to some of their old areas, if they would restrict their catches. The Japanese agreed. The big 1960 run will greatly help the troubled Alaskan economy. Experts expect this season's catch to be worth $67 million, second only to the record catch of 1948. The catch will bring the state $1,380,000 taxes, has given the fishing industry...
...bills, H.J. Res. 547 and H.R. 9584 would restrict presidential campaigns to 60 days...
Japanese businessmen were evidently worried over hostile U.S. reaction. Their great fear is that the riots may spur moves to restrict Japanese exports to the U.S., now totaling more than $1 billion a year, at a time when many U.S. rivals are concerned at the inroads of cheaper Japanese goods. Yokohama Chamber of Commerce President Shogo Tanaka sent a letter of apology to the Chambers of Commerce of 30 U.S. cities for "the mob demonstrations fanned by a leftist minority." Japanese toymakers, who sell $50 million worth of toys to the U.S. each year, wrote directly to President Eisenhower expressing...
Also on the ballot are U.S. Steel's objections : under present rules, any stockholder can remain anonymous by registering his stock in the name of a bank or broker; secret balloting would seriously restrict recounts and court challenges of close proxy battles; the practical details for working out the system are immense...
...Continent, a movement to restrict capital punishment to serious crimes had been under way for decades, largely under the influence of the Italian reformer Cesare Beccaria, who argued that harsh punishments had a brutalizing effect upon society and thus bred crime instead of deterring it. But to the rulers of England, it seemed that capital punishment, even for offenses now considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations...