The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, Volume 3World Review Company, 1902 |
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Page 1486
... mines . It is asserted that from 60 to 80 per cent of these men obeyed the summons and went on strike . The places of some of them were filled by non - union men , mine superintendents and others , but many of the pumps remained idle ...
... mines . It is asserted that from 60 to 80 per cent of these men obeyed the summons and went on strike . The places of some of them were filled by non - union men , mine superintendents and others , but many of the pumps remained idle ...
Page 1487
... mines that are closed at other times , thus retaining in the coal fields more labor than is needed to supply the demand for coal , tends to make labor cheap and entirely dependent upon the whim of the half dozen men who control ...
... mines that are closed at other times , thus retaining in the coal fields more labor than is needed to supply the demand for coal , tends to make labor cheap and entirely dependent upon the whim of the half dozen men who control ...
Page 1488
... mine owners and mine workers are most exasperating and seem- ingly most unjust . If the president had If the president had sent the attorney general instead of the commissioner of labor to investigate the affairs of the coal roads the ...
... mine owners and mine workers are most exasperating and seem- ingly most unjust . If the president had If the president had sent the attorney general instead of the commissioner of labor to investigate the affairs of the coal roads the ...
Page 1498
... mines on either side of the railway within twenty kilometers ( about 121⁄2 miles ) . The concessionaires are exempt from taxes and from customs and stamp duties . They are to pay an annual subsidy of 600 Turkish pounds ( nearly $ 2,700 ) ...
... mines on either side of the railway within twenty kilometers ( about 121⁄2 miles ) . The concessionaires are exempt from taxes and from customs and stamp duties . They are to pay an annual subsidy of 600 Turkish pounds ( nearly $ 2,700 ) ...
Page 1511
... mines are indemnity enough . Instead of exacting payment from the burghers , they are actually paying the Boers to cease fighting . They are glad to have the strife ended and to begin a new era of reconstruction . Will the victors show ...
... mines are indemnity enough . Instead of exacting payment from the burghers , they are actually paying the Boers to cease fighting . They are glad to have the strife ended and to begin a new era of reconstruction . Will the victors show ...
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Page 1929 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 2021 - We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 1697 - The general principle announced in numerous cases is that a right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, as a ground of recovery, cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same partes or their privies; and even if the second suit is for a different cause of action, the right, question or fact once so determined must, as between the same parties or their privies, be taken as conclusively established, so long as the judgment...
Page 1686 - Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened, the ambitions fired and the high achievements that will be wrought through this exposition ? Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
Page 1969 - That when the' payments required by this Act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby...
Page 1970 - Interior under this act to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.
Page 1970 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 1968 - Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments, not exceeding ten, in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence. The said charges shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the...
Page 1545 - ACT RELATING TO NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (BEING AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A LAW UNIFORM WITH THE LAWS OF OTHER STATES ON THAT SUBJECT) TITLE I NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS IN GENERAL ARTICLE I FORM AND INTERPRETATION SECTION 1.
Page 1969 - ... then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior...