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Recently the League of Nations drew up a treaty to restrict the traffic in arms. It is known as the St. Germain Convention. The Convention was submitted to our State Department in hope that we might become a party to it. This Secretary Hughes declined for us in a note in which he gave his reasons...
...From the first moment Stinnes appeared in Upper Silesia I used all available measures to restrict him. He secured large blocks of shares in the Kattawitz Metallurgical Trust, which possessed mines and iron factories, and an interest in the Bismarck mines, and one of the finest steel fabricating plants in Europe...
Most significant has been the step taken by the Board of Governors of the American Construction Council. Headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and representing all factors in the construction industry, this national organization has recommended that all new construction be deferred for several months, that bankers restrict speculative building loans till fall, that wide publicity be given to the rising costs of construction and that all building by the government be halted over summer. The Federal Reserve Board in Washington has announced itself in agreement with the Construction Board's advice to curtail loans, while Chambers of Commerce all over...
Several regulations have recently been decided upon to restrict attendance to members of the Freshman class only. All entrances to the dormitories will be open during the afternoon until 4.30 o'clock, when Smith Hall quadrangle will be entirely cleared and C entry of Standish will be closed. To reach their rooms after that time, men not going to the Jubilee will be required to hand in their names to P. P. Cram in Persis Smith A-13. Girls will not be allowed in Gore or Standish after 6 o'clock, nor in Smith after 4.30 o'clock...
...vice of the situation lies in the existence of high surtaxes in conjunction with the continued issuance of tax-exempt securities. Adoption of a constitutional amendment to restrict further issues of tax-exempt securities, coupled with legislation closing the gaps in the income law, is a final but far from immediate solution. And it will not eliminate tax-exempt state and municipal bonds now outstanding. Awaiting their retirement will postpone the date of complete solution. Only reduction by Act of Congress of the surtax rates to a level at which the inducement to invest in tax-exempt securities becomes negligible...