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This test is given under the honor system???no peeking...
...Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans. These peoples arrived by the shipload, were quartered in agricultural camps, given free housing, free water, free wood, free medical service. In spite of small wages it was a beneficent system???too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms, and the Filipino who irrigated the sugar-cane fields, had children who were U. S. citizens. The second and third generation of field workers, after much free schooling, refused to live...
...referee against Cul-bertson's "waste of time." Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic" bids, and though this match is officially to follow the Lenz and Culbertson systems, a "psychic" bid by Lenz-Partner Jacoby was permissible. Later Lenz objected to a Culbertson breach of system???a partner's raise on a doubleton suit...
Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission made drastic changes in the U. S. railway rate system???a structure as vitally important as it is complex. Two reports, appearing simultaneously, revised the class rates* in the East and in the West, added some $52,000,000 to the future annual revenues of the railroads. The new rates go into effect...
...Budget System???"Our main problems are domestic problems. . . . Orderly retrenchment is bringing our expenses within our means. The origin of this has been the determination of the American people, the main support has been the courage of those in authority and the effective method has been the budget system. . . . This system is a law of the Congress. It represents your will. It must be maintained and ought to be strengthened by the example of your observance...