The American Year Book

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Albert Bushnell Hart
T. Nelson & Sons, 1914
 

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Page 243 - We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the advantage of the United States but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. Every step we take will be taken with a view to the ultimate independence of the Islands and as a preparation for that independence.
Page 272 - If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions, or grand jury investigations...
Page 31 - Gross income" includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service, of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, businesses, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived...
Page 432 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 470 - That there is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general design 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 14 - We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.
Page 28 - Consciously or unconsciously we have built up a set of privileges and exemptions from competition behind which it was easy by; any, even the crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly; until at last nothing is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and economy in our world of big business,, but everything thrives by concerted agreementOnly new principles of action will save us from a final hard crystallization of monopoly and a complete loss of the influences that quicken...
Page 3 - That any admissible alien, or any alien heretofore or hereafter legally admitted, or any citizen of the United States, may bring in or send for...
Page 117 - We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition.
Page 344 - Secretary shall be taken and held in all Courts to be as valid and binding as if due service had been made upon said applicant in the State of Kentucky.

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