Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Offering some more advice to our competitors (who never take it), how about a state law for the licensing of such children as are the sole support of their families to sell papers? The age limit should be raised one year each year so that child labor could be eased out of the newspaper business without strain...
Realizing the present difficulty of men who are trying for scholarship aid, who are forced to "plan their work with the sole aim of obtaining the highest marks possible," the President feels that this method of awarding scholarships would "tend to diminish greatly the emphasis placed on grades obtained in courses. In this same direction the Report reveals that it might be a wise step forward to abolish the rank list itself for the upper classes. Modification such as this would of course be more in line with the shift of emphasis away from course grades and towards the development...
...sound currency which, in so far as possible, will have a fairly constant standard of purchasing power and be adequate for the purposes of daily use and the establishment of credit. "The other principle is the inherent right of Government to issue currency and to be the sole custodian and owner of the base or reserve of precious metals underlying that currency. With this goes the prerogative of Government to determine from time to time the extent and nature of the metallic reserve...
...unhappy holders of his defaulted bonds. But Founder Edward Wellington Backus was unhappier than his bondholders. Unable to refund a bond issue, the $100,000,000 paper company in which he owned 90% of the common stock passed into receivership in 1931. Founder-President Backus was later ousted as sole receiver by bankers who put in two of their own co-receivers. They promptly sued Founder Backus for $7,000,000. That was too much for Founder Backus. Last week in Minneapolis he launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them...
...furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin, or ''former officers" or even "certain per-sons." In fact he did not even...