Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 76A.L. Hummel, 1918 - Political science |
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... Ways and Means to Obtain Additional Revenue of the N. Y. State Elec . Ry . Assn .; Expert to the Com . on Revenue of the Am . Elec . Ry . Assn . DECKER , MARTIN S. Engaged in expert work involving public vii FOREWORD AND BIOGRAPHY.
... Ways and Means to Obtain Additional Revenue of the N. Y. State Elec . Ry . Assn .; Expert to the Com . on Revenue of the Am . Elec . Ry . Assn . DECKER , MARTIN S. Engaged in expert work involving public vii FOREWORD AND BIOGRAPHY.
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... additional cars , additional locomotives and additional terminal facilities . How could they secure the necessary funds ? The normal method of securing funds for capital expenditures is the sale of securities . During the war , however ...
... additional cars , additional locomotives and additional terminal facilities . How could they secure the necessary funds ? The normal method of securing funds for capital expenditures is the sale of securities . During the war , however ...
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... additional capital expenditures . Third , private operation can not during the war secure an amount of labor sufficient to maintain railroad properties in safe and serviceable condition , nor can private operation secure with sufficient ...
... additional capital expenditures . Third , private operation can not during the war secure an amount of labor sufficient to maintain railroad properties in safe and serviceable condition , nor can private operation secure with sufficient ...
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... additional terminal facilities , equip- ment and other additions and betterments ; ( 5 ) secure the labor necessary to keep railway properties in safe and serviceable opera- ting condition and can expedite the manufacture for the ...
... additional terminal facilities , equip- ment and other additions and betterments ; ( 5 ) secure the labor necessary to keep railway properties in safe and serviceable opera- ting condition and can expedite the manufacture for the ...
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... additional tracks about 6,000 miles . While this represents a con- siderable amount of new construction , it is an increase in line mile- age of only 1 per cent , and in additional track mileage of about 5 per cent . Recollection that ...
... additional tracks about 6,000 miles . While this represents a con- siderable amount of new construction , it is an increase in line mile- age of only 1 per cent , and in additional track mileage of about 5 per cent . Recollection that ...
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Page 15 - The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable.
Page 240 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.
Page 147 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 246 - Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property, wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.
Page 145 - The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency shall be ineligible during the time they are in office and for two years thereafter to hold any office, position or employment in any member bank.
Page 179 - ... or for the reimbursement of moneys actually expended from income or from any other moneys in the treasury of the public utility not secured by or obtained from the issue of stocks or stock certificates, or bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of such public utility, within five years...
Page 272 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Page 243 - Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, etc., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to congress; and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.
Page 272 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial Government of Japan which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 243 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government, all of which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves.