Political Science Quarterly, Volume 10Academy of Political Science., 1895 - Electronic journals Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31- 38 and to no. 1 of v. 40) |
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... profit of less than five and three- quarters per cent . In some years the profit has been as high as six per cent . The Farringdon Street and St. Pancras build- ings pay best of all the association's enterprises . Labor and materials ...
... profit of less than five and three- quarters per cent . In some years the profit has been as high as six per cent . The Farringdon Street and St. Pancras build- ings pay best of all the association's enterprises . Labor and materials ...
Page 30
... profit of one per cent , and so the directors abandoned this part of the association's original scheme , and expended another sum of £ 4,700 in converting the building into dwellings like those at St. Pancras . The Albert Street ...
... profit of one per cent , and so the directors abandoned this part of the association's original scheme , and expended another sum of £ 4,700 in converting the building into dwellings like those at St. Pancras . The Albert Street ...
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... profit became assured to the average trader under average circum- stances . At the same time the risks that remained became ... profits possible . Thus with the elimination of petty and local risks and the increasing importance of the ...
... profit became assured to the average trader under average circum- stances . At the same time the risks that remained became ... profits possible . Thus with the elimination of petty and local risks and the increasing importance of the ...
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... profits . In this process the price apparently does not rise when the covering contracts are made . This is because , say some , 2 the wheat which the shorts buy is based on real holdings ; or , say others , 3 because they cannot really ...
... profits . In this process the price apparently does not rise when the covering contracts are made . This is because , say some , 2 the wheat which the shorts buy is based on real holdings ; or , say others , 3 because they cannot really ...
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... profit . With a description of this process as his vade mecum , the way of the speculator is easy and his profits far from light . The legislators who see so clearly how they might thus take unto themselves the " hard - earned substance ...
... profit . With a description of this process as his vade mecum , the way of the speculator is easy and his profits far from light . The legislators who see so clearly how they might thus take unto themselves the " hard - earned substance ...
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Page 2 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Page 574 - And to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues from time to time in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par in coin...
Page 20 - Laws relating to the property, affairs or government of cities, and the several departments thereof, are divided into general and special city laws; general city laws are those which relate to all the cities of one or more classes; special city laws are those which relate to a single city, or to less than all the cities of a class.
Page 296 - And this puts men out of a state of Nature into that of a commonwealth, by setting up a judge on earth with authority to determine all the controversies and redress the injuries that may happen to any member of the commonwealth; which judge is the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it.
Page 297 - When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to a person, or an assemblage of persons, of a known and certain description (whom we may call governor or governors) such persons altogether (subjects and governors) are said to be in a state of political SOCIETY.* XI.
Page 15 - Each county, town, city, and incorporated village, shall make provision for the support of its own officers, subject to such restrictions and regulations as the legislature may prescribe.
Page 48 - ... an easy victory over a passing remark of Mr. Malthus, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration, that the increase of food may perhaps be assumed to take place in an arithmetical ratio, while population increases in a geometrical : when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument.
Page 441 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America In general.
Page 265 - The power of this republic, at the present moment, is spread over a region one of the richest and most fertile on the globe, and of an extent in comparison with which the possessions of the house of Hapsburg are but as a patch on the earth's surface.