Transactions, Volume 13Commonwealth Club of California, 1918 |
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... five per cent of the wounded soldiers died for the want of care of a Red Cross sur- geon and a Red Cross nurse . Those poor boys died simply because they did not have the care . The Red Cross of America stands there today with these ...
... five per cent of the wounded soldiers died for the want of care of a Red Cross sur- geon and a Red Cross nurse . Those poor boys died simply because they did not have the care . The Red Cross of America stands there today with these ...
Page 42
... for food- stuffs prices were compared at the municipal markets with prices at ... per cent of the vendors are not themselves producers ; ( b ) prices at our ... five - year period would appear to be the fifty - one peddlers and the sixty ...
... for food- stuffs prices were compared at the municipal markets with prices at ... per cent of the vendors are not themselves producers ; ( b ) prices at our ... five - year period would appear to be the fifty - one peddlers and the sixty ...
Page 46
... per cent , " while the largest retail grocery concern there reports " Seven per cent . " In Portland two weeks ago ... five to seven per cent , out of an average cost of doing business of eighteen per cent . In my own firm in San ...
... per cent , " while the largest retail grocery concern there reports " Seven per cent . " In Portland two weeks ago ... five to seven per cent , out of an average cost of doing business of eighteen per cent . In my own firm in San ...
Page 47
... per cent , or almost half of the total operating ex- pense , an extreme case . The larger retail dry goods firms in San Francisco base their delivery expense from two and one - half to five per cent of their overhead according to sale ...
... per cent , or almost half of the total operating ex- pense , an extreme case . The larger retail dry goods firms in San Francisco base their delivery expense from two and one - half to five per cent of their overhead according to sale ...
Page 50
... five per cent of the consuming public , only , pay cash , while sixty - five per cent prefer the credit system . The sixty - five per cent is regarded as permanent trade to the stores who enjoy such patronage , while a considerable ...
... five per cent of the consuming public , only , pay cash , while sixty - five per cent prefer the credit system . The sixty - five per cent is regarded as permanent trade to the stores who enjoy such patronage , while a considerable ...
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Page 145 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 139 - The powers of the Legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained...
Page 138 - The peace, the prosperity, and the very existence of the Union are vested in the hands of the seven judges. Without their active co-operation the constitution would be a dead letter; the executive appeals to them for assistance against the encroachments of the legislative...
Page 242 - Court for, the owner, and no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal until full compensation therefor be first made in money or ascertained and paid into Court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation...
Page 139 - If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law ? This would be to overthrow in fact what was established in theory; and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross to be insisted on.
Page 124 - SECTION 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a Supreme Court, District Courts of Appeal, Superior Courts, Justices of the Peace, and such inferior courts as the Legislature may establish in any incorporated city or town, or city and county.
Page 141 - ... unless, after an examination of the entire cause, including the evidence, the court shall be of the opinion that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
Page 138 - Within these limits, the power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional, forms one of the most powerful barriers which has ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.
Page 245 - Each stockholder of a corporation or joint-stock association shall be individually and personally liable for such proportion of all its debts and liabilities contracted or incurred during the time he was a stockholder...
Page 242 - ... taken immediate payment of just compensation for such taking and any damage incident thereto, including damages sustained by reason of an adjudication that there is no necessity for taking the property, as soon as the same can be ascertained according to law. The court may, upon motion of any party to said eminent domain proceedings, after such notice to the other parties as the court may prescribe, alter the amount of such security so required in such proceedings. The taking of private property...