Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control and the Erie with much less fixed charges." This would seem a singularly hazardous C. & O. gamble, for only last month an ICC examiner reported on an insolvent line (Chicago & Eastern Illinois) in which C. & O. has an $8.000.000 interest. He held that C. & E. I. stock was worthless; the ICC might do the same for Erie in like circumstances...
...question either way given time, as it did in overthrowing New York State's minimum wage law and then upholding a similar one passed in Washington. His parable: Suppose that an old statute taxed horses at $10 a head and ducks at 10? that in time horses became worthless and ducks valuable. At this point legal scholars would redefine the duck, would inevitably rule that "Thomas Jefferson once remarked to his wife that his horses were worth much more than his ducks. Differences between feathers and hair were never mentioned by any of the founders. Therefore, it is apparent...
...Partners." Leaks disclosed that Halifax reported the Nazis demanding in the way of colonies that Britain and France yield "only" Togoland and the Cameroons-these being nearly worthless African territories-but that Belgium and Portugal should be forced to yield their long held rich Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
...subsist upon the labors of others, from psychopaths who lead the mentally inferior mass of civilized populations into purposeless wars and social revolutions, from the ever increasing numbers of biological and mental inferiors who are anti-social and criminalistic. If the generations to come can be emancipated from these worthless and deleterious elements, it will be a comparatively simple matter to perfect social and political institutions and to adjust human relations to a reasonable harmony...
...Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until his death last...