McClure's Magazine, Volume 32S.S. McClure Company, 1908 |
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Page 11 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 99 - Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions : I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
Page 566 - Commandments, at least ; for they resemble nothing either in heaven above or the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Page 128 - Of the population aged 65 and over, 35 per cent of the men and 18 per cent of the women constitute married couples living in their own homes apart from their children and other relatives.
Page 544 - God! I'll up an' go to him a-singin' in the night, A-callin' in the night. Grandmither, gie me your clay-cold heart that has forgot to ache, For mine be fire within my breast and yet it cannot break. Wi' every beat it's callin' for things that must not be, — An" can ye not let me creep in an
Page 579 - Credit of Participating Policies, Dec. 31, 1908, nearly - - 15 Million Dollars Total Payments to Policyholders Since Organization, Plus Amount Held at Interest to Their Credit, Over 313 Million Dollars ! Other 1908 Features: Expenses Reduced. New Monthly Income Policy Inaugurated. Loaned to Policyholders, on Security of their Policies, to Dec. 31, 1908, over 10 Million Dollars. Tax Payments in 1908, nearly 1/4 Million Dollars.
Page 99 - And here let me caution persons grown old in active business, not lightly, nor without weighing their own resources, to forego their customary employment all at once, for there may be danger in it.
Page 571 - MD, imparts in a clear, wholesome way. in one volume: Knowledge a Young Man Should Have. Knowledge a Young Husband Should Have.
Page 13 - To cause, by means of threats and coercion, and without warning or information to the plaintiffs, the concerted and simultaneous withdrawal of all the makers and finishers of hats then working for them, who were not members of their said combination, The United Hatters of North America, as well as those who were such members, and thereby cripple the operation of the plaintiffs...
Page 373 - If we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a largely increased volume of the currency, and even if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase, these conditions fall far short of insuring us against disaster if, in the present situation, we enter upon the dangerous and reckless experiment of free, unlimited, and independent silver coinage.