Word: trades
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...reception of the Yale crew while there for the annual Harvard-Yale boat race. He has secured for the crew the same quarters as for several years at Gale's Ferry, where the Yale 'varsity will go on June 1. Mr. Adee consulted with the New London Board of Trade relative to the arrangements for the race. Several changes in the method of allowing vessels to watch the race on the river will be made this year...
...Trusts are a natural result of industrial conditions. - (a) Lower prices caused by overproduction. - (b) Opposition of labor to corresponding reduction of wages. - (c) Organized for self protection as offset to trade unions. - (d) Trend of all industry is toward combination, W. Gladden, "Tools and the Man," ch. on "Collapse of Competition...
...come from this tax for ten months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this...
...Horr of Michigan and Hon. Harvey N. Shepard '71 of Boston will debate on Protection vs. Free Trade at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, April 30, at 8.30 p.m., under the auspices of the Cambridge...
...Single gold standard would give rise to great evils. - (a) Would depress trade and industry: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27. - (1) On a gold basis, the amount of money could not increase with the growth of population and business. - (x) Supply of gold is insufficient: Report of U. S. Monetary Commission of 1877, p. 15; Pol. Sci. Q. VIII, 211. - (2) Contraction of amount of money means lower prices: Mill, Pol. Econ., book III, ch. 8. - (b) Would injure the debtor class. - (1) They would have to pay in an appreciated currency: MacVane, Pol. Econ., 123. - (c) Would injure...