Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volumes 49-50American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1913 |
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... dealer , are Negroes . These men have been successful , not because of any special opportunity opened to them , as in the case of the Negro physician and the Negro undertaker , but because they were enterprising , and knew how to handle ...
... dealer , are Negroes . These men have been successful , not because of any special opportunity opened to them , as in the case of the Negro physician and the Negro undertaker , but because they were enterprising , and knew how to handle ...
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... dealer ; a third shipper hands over to the forwarder's agent another package consigned , let it be assumed , to a third man ; and so on through a list of possibly twenty to sixty or more separate consign- ments . All of these may be put ...
... dealer ; a third shipper hands over to the forwarder's agent another package consigned , let it be assumed , to a third man ; and so on through a list of possibly twenty to sixty or more separate consign- ments . All of these may be put ...
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... dealers need to know how much of a given kind of perishable produce is on its way or may be diverted to their market . The regions and routes with which a dealer should keep in constant touch vary with commodities and with seasons ...
... dealers need to know how much of a given kind of perishable produce is on its way or may be diverted to their market . The regions and routes with which a dealer should keep in constant touch vary with commodities and with seasons ...
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... dealers at car - lot markets , only those who handle tomatoes are vitally concerned with this part of market news . Later in the season it would be necessary to watch tomatoes " rolling " from a number of different places of production ...
... dealers at car - lot markets , only those who handle tomatoes are vitally concerned with this part of market news . Later in the season it would be necessary to watch tomatoes " rolling " from a number of different places of production ...
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... dealers in neighboring towns had to pay extra freight or expressage to get them to the smaller place . That made prices high beyond the reach of a family of moderate means . Now certain zones have been created , with the larger cities ...
... dealers in neighboring towns had to pay extra freight or expressage to get them to the smaller place . That made prices high beyond the reach of a family of moderate means . Now certain zones have been created , with the larger cities ...
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Page 252 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 251 - Convention are on record as recognizing the claim of property to a special and defensive position in the Constitution. In the ratification of the Constitution, about three-fourths of the adult males failed to vote on the question, having abstained from the elections at which delegates to the state conventions were chosen, either on account of their indifference or their disfranchisement by property qualifications. The Constitution was ratified by a vote of probably not more than onesixth of the adult...
Page 18 - If the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch...
Page 79 - ... merchant, firm, or corporation deals, or to discriminate against the same by depreciating the value of such products in the public mind, or by misrepresentation as to value or quality or by price inducement, or by unfair discrimination between buyers, or in any other manner whatsoever, except in cases where said goods do not carry any notice prohibiting such practice, and except in case of a receiver's sale, or a sale by a concern going out of business.
Page 251 - The movement for the Constitution of the United States was originated and carried through principally by four groups of personalty interests which had been adversely affected under the Articles of Confederation: money, public securities, manufactures, and trade and shipping.
Page 277 - ... so has likewise steadily advanced, especially in war on land, the distinction between the private individual belonging to a hostile country and the hostile country itself, with its men in arms. The principle has been more and more acknowledged that the unarmed citizen is to be spared in person, property, and honor as much as the exigencies of war will admit.
Page 251 - Constitution were taken by a small and active group of men immediately interested through their personal possessions in the outcome of their labors.
Page 210 - ... for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union ; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Page 210 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 269 - Defective nutrition stands in the forefront as the most important of all physical defects from which school children suffer.