The North American Review, Volume 226University of Northern Iowa, 1928 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... cause special comment was the purchase of 33,250 shares of the Bank of America , bought at $ 510 a share . The stock of the Bank of America thereupon rose rapidly in market price to between fourteen and fifteen hundred dollars a share ...
... cause special comment was the purchase of 33,250 shares of the Bank of America , bought at $ 510 a share . The stock of the Bank of America thereupon rose rapidly in market price to between fourteen and fifteen hundred dollars a share ...
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... cause an independent bank to fail . The notoriously large number of bank failures each year in the United States and the subsequent loss to depositors has practically no equal anywhere else in the world . A branch bank is likely to have ...
... cause an independent bank to fail . The notoriously large number of bank failures each year in the United States and the subsequent loss to depositors has practically no equal anywhere else in the world . A branch bank is likely to have ...
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... caused by the depredations of the birds , and that they were also very destructive to the young of deer and to other game species , passed a law placing a bounty on the eagle , to be paid on the presentation of the feet of the bird ...
... caused by the depredations of the birds , and that they were also very destructive to the young of deer and to other game species , passed a law placing a bounty on the eagle , to be paid on the presentation of the feet of the bird ...
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... cause is over - killing in the name of sport . And what is " sport " ? But we have apparently wandered far from the Bald Eagle , the bird that nearly a century and a half ago our forefathers selected as the emblem of a country that had ...
... cause is over - killing in the name of sport . And what is " sport " ? But we have apparently wandered far from the Bald Eagle , the bird that nearly a century and a half ago our forefathers selected as the emblem of a country that had ...
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... country had as their proximate cause the failure of the legal machinery for the protec- tion of society ? Let us examine the facts . The first step in the administration of the criminal law CRIME - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS 29.
... country had as their proximate cause the failure of the legal machinery for the protec- tion of society ? Let us examine the facts . The first step in the administration of the criminal law CRIME - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS 29.
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Page 142 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Page 504 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Page 510 - I direct that in the election of a student to a scholarship regard shall be had to (i) his literary and scholastic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports such as cricket, football and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...
Page 253 - Enquiry into the Use and Practice of Juries among the Greeks and Romans,' London, 17C.9, may be consulted as to the functions of the Roman judices in the Judicia Publica.
Page 729 - I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. In general they will elect the really good and wise. In some instances, wealth may corrupt, and birth blind them ; but not in sufficient degree to endanger the society.
Page 174 - That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain...
Page 43 - But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Page 174 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 313 - To liberty and enfranchisement is as far as law can carry the negro. The rest must be left to conscience and common sense. It must be left to those among whom his lot is cast, with whom he is indissolubly connected, and whose prosperity depends upon their possessing his intelligent sympathy and confidence. Faith has been kept with him, in spite of calumnious assertions to the contrary by those who assume to speak for us or by frank opponents.
Page 518 - Acts and ideas that lead to progress are born out of the womb of the individual mind, not out of the mind of the crowd. The crowd only feels: it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams — but it never builds.