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The article presents socio-political news, from around the world. In looking over the rows and columns of widespread "financial" advertisements contained nowadays in almost every paper of any circulation, many persons are reminded of the unceasing growth of the national and individual activity, some will reflect upon the profitableness of enterprises that can afford such lavish expense, and here and there one will speculate upon the handsome income the newspapers derive there from. The main purpose of inserting the advertisement and puff in the feebler dailies and weeklies is to gain access thereby to the principal journals in the large cities all over the country, the great leaders of public opinion, the papers having the highest circulation. The article presents an enquiry into the programme of the Democratic Party for the coming year or two. The State platforms contain just as much vague declamation about the duty of protecting the rights of American citizens abroad as seems likely to satisfy, or at least pacify, the Fenians-that is, the most gullible portion of the community; but we have never yet seen in any Democratic speech or article a direct mention of rights of American citizens abroad which the present Administration was not seeking to protect by the negotiations it has concluded with the principal European states.

Presents information on the sociopolitical and economic developments in the U.S. as of December 1972. Critique on recent court cases that have attracted national attention in the country; Implications of the victory of chancellor Willy Bradt over political candidate Rainer Candidus; Impact of environmental awareness on the food industry of the U.S.; Others.

This article reports on the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Economic Association, held on December 29, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania. The larger circumstance responsible for a successful meeting of American political economists at this particular time is, of course, the extraordinary development of economic study in the United States. It has become almost a commonplace to prophesy that the scientific leadership in economic inquiry, which two generations have seen pass from Great Britain to Germany, will ultimately reside in the United States.

The article comments on various political and economic developments in the U.S. The U.S. President has sent a message to Congress on the subject of resumption. He says that while it may not be desirable to resume earlier than January 1, 1879, it is certainly desirable to hasten the day when paper and gold shall have equal values. He calls attention to the fact that exports largely exceed imports, while at the same time imports of specie exceed exports. In an another news, the count began on Thursday at one o'clock, but the Presidential dispute was almost immediately transferred to the Mixed Tribunal, on the papers in the Florida case. The argument thus far has, in form, related to the jurisdiction of the Tribunal and the admissibility of evidence.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the U.S. There has been so much talk of senatorial courtesy, and of rules of mysterious potency, that many people have received the impression that the Senate was entirely helpless under the tyranny of a small minority, and that any attempt to cheek the flow of speech would be of the nature of revolution. The State is ready and willing to turn against the Democratic party and give the Republicans the greatest political victory they have had for twenty years, yet, instead of making the most of the opportunity, the whole power of this Republican organization seems to be exerted to keep the victory from coming to the party.

The article discusses some of the economic developments in the U.S. Within the last two decades the South has undergone an amazing industrial development. The diversification of its industries has proceeded swiftly and has been followed by an increase in general prosperity. Southern Progressive reformer Edgar Gardner Murphy finds the industrial rise of the South is bringing gain as well as loss, is doing much to free the South from its isolation. In the comprehensive review of the financial situation from a dozen great money markets of the world, the dominant idea appeared to be that trade activity had reached such a pitch that neither capital nor transportation could keep pace with it.

The article discusses the paper "When Should Public Debt Be Reduced?" by Jonathan Ostry, Atish Ghosh, and Raphael Espinoza of the multinational organization International Monetary Fund (IMF) in relation to U.S. public debt. Topics include the impact of the Great Recession on U.S. public debt, Kenynesian aspects of government spending and taxation, and the relation of economic growth to paying down public debt.

Some American commentators have asserted that Great Britain will be in a better economic position than the U.S. after the World War II because the growth in its national debt has been relatively smaller. But the size of a country's internal debt has no bearing on its capacity to produce real wealth, that is only affected to the extent that war destroys or consumes the actual means of production. For modern war is necessarily on a pay-as-you-go basis. Today's battles cannot be fought with weapons produced tomorrow.

This article presents information, related to socio-economic conditions of several nations. The newspaper "London Times," has been conducting at terrible length a controversy over the circulating library which it organized as a means towards increasing the sale of the paper. The used volumes, it soon offered to its readers at discounts ranging from 35 to 75 per cent. George Haven Putnam expresses a hope that agreements between publishers and booksellers may receive especial legal sanction. But the issues raised by price-cutting and prompt resale of new books as second-hand seem, in fact, to fall less in the category of legal contract that of business ethics many about the urgent need of educational reform. The pupils are burdened with work. In the instruction in languages, which takes up many hours, there is an excess of grammar, a neglect of the contents of books. History and geography have been degraded to mere memory-work.

Last summer and fall U.S. Senator Upton Sinclair convulsed California because he dared to propose that poverty was an anachronism in so rich and beautiful a state, and urged a plan which he thought, and thinks, will end it. Thereupon all the well-to-do people in California and the entire press of the state went into spasms of horror. Chief among them was an estimable weekly paper in San Francisco, the Argonaut. "California," it wrote, "is not a laboratory in which the well-being of 6,000,000 human beings can be tampered with for the pleasure of giddy amateurs of government, theorists who are anxious to wreck the work of nearly a century simply because they believe their way is the only way to deal with an emergency." It admitted that a lot of people were out of work and that this condition was man-made.

This article presents information on some recent socio-political developments. It is informed that U.S. President, George W. Bush is continuing his policies of economic growth even after the steep resistance the policies met especially after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. September 11 was supposed to change everything, but despite war and recession the President remains wedded to the same reactionary agenda he pushed before the attack. Invoking his wartime popularity and authority, he is driving his old agenda through a reluctant Congress and forcing party-line votes on a range of fundamental issues. It is informed that the terrorist attack revealed glaring domestic security and public health needs and the spreading recession has exposed gaping holes in the safety net for workers and the poor.

The article comments on economic developments in the U.S. Beef, pork and poultry packers have been aggressively recruiting the most vulnerable of foreign workers to relocate to the U.S. plains in exchange for $6-an-hour jobs in the country's most dangerous industry. Since permanence is hardly a requirement for these jobs, the concepts of promotion and significant salary increase have as much as disappeared. That as many as half of these new immigrants lack legal residence seems no obstacle to an industry now thriving on a docile, disempowered work force with an astronomical turnover.

Focuses on the socio-economic development of Phoenix, Arizona as of December 1979. Efforts of the city to attract more national and multinational companies; Companies which shifted their headquarters in the city due to favorable tax laws; Social problems faced by the city; Standard of living of the people of Arizona.

Discusses the frequency of Presidential veto in the United States and its implications for the local economy. Economic bills vetoed by U.S. Gerald S. Ford; Failure of U.S. Congress to override presidential vetoes; Opposition's aim to raise the issue of Presidential obstructionism in the November 1976 elections; Reasons veto power is not frontally attacked; Constitutional provisions concerning veto power; Founding fathers' position toward the veto; U.S. presidents' exercise of veto power.

Focuses on the island Guam as a hub of America's presence in Asia as of October 26, 1974. Overview of the stature of tourist trade in Guam; Role of the U.S. Navy and Army in improving the economic condition of this island; Reason behind the sudden prosperity of this island; Account of political restrain of the U.S. over Guam; Relationship between the U.S. military and Guam's economic indicators; Efforts made by the U.S. to emancipate Japanese control over Guam.

This article presents information regarding the political and economic developments in the U.S. One of the sections of the article analyzes the power of the U.S. Congress to deal with the currency crisis. Neither the U.S. President nor any member of the Cabinet would have a moment left from morning till night for the discharge of a single one of his imperative duties. Another section says that in withdrawing the Hawaiian treaty from the Senate, U.S. President Grover Cleveland has simply taken the straightforward way of undoing what never should have been done.

The article focuses on the speech of the U.S. President Stephen Cleveland. He represents to the plain people of the country the homely virtues of simplicity and economy. Those perplexed spectators of his career who cannot understand his hold upon the American people will find in this attribute of his character full and sufficient explanation of what is to them a mystery. Speaking directly to the people, with the accent of profound conviction, and with the full weight of his personal sincerity and honesty in every phase. The article also focuses on the federal taxation. The change in the taxation may be briefly described as one from a state of general ignorance and indifference in regard to Federal taxes, to a state of great uneasiness and sensitiveness about them.

This article presents information, related to socio-political conditions of the U.S. In two earlier pieces in this space, authors examined some reasons why it is becoming mandatory for the U.S., to plan a new and vastly more effective role for itself in helping to advance the economic, social, and political progress of the many millions of people dwelling in various colonial, excolonial, and other underdeveloped areas of the world. Paradoxically this challenge seems to become more acute as the fear of atomic war recedes. The U.S. Department of Justice's position that the accused is not entitled to face his accuser in loyalty-security cases has been badly shaken by the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoining enforcement by the coast guard of its "screening" regulations. Washington's foreign trade practices continue to be in glaring contrast with official pronouncements.

The article focuses on several political and economic issues. The state of public opinion, both in the United States and in Great Britain, on the Isthmian Canal question is much more placid than it was at the expiration of the last session of the U.S. Congress. The U.S. Senate in three particulars had amended the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and while these amendments did not seem objectionable to Great Britain in substance, they were objectionable in form. The chief objection was that one of these amendments bluntly declared the Clayton-Bulwer treaty abrogated. Recent economic developments have perhaps furnished no surprises greater than that caused by the appearance of American capital in foreign fields of investment. During the past twelve month, large transportation interests in London, England have been acquired, by one American capitalist, and an important British steamship line has passed under the control of another.

The article presents information on various economic developments related to the U.S. The course of events in the stock market since the beginning of the present year has been without precedent in the U.S. or any other country. Its chief feature and impelling cause, called the "community of interest," was a new thing in the world of finance, and was well calculated to excite the public imagination. In another development, Charles M. Schwab, president of the U.S. Steel Company, gave testimony before the Industrial Commission at Washington on Saturday in a spirit of frankness which is much to be commended.

Focuses on flaws in the U.S. economic growth, in context with the growth in the country's population. Need for distinction between concepts of population growth and economic growth; Factors affecting the country's economic growth; Correlation between the solutions for tackling population growth with that of encouraging economic growth.

This article presents information about socio-political developments around the world as of September 23, 1909. One of the news reported the response and reaction of President William Howard Taft on various issues concerning finance and politics in the United States. It deals with the unbiased and impersonal judgment of the President in a case against the Secretary Richard A. Ballinger. In an issue regarding the reforms in banking and currency, the establishment of central bank is seen as a most apt solution. In his another speech on the issue of low tariff, he failed to conciliate the Republicans of West, instead, it suffered the political consequences.

The article presents information on a chapter titled "A Look Further Ahead" written by William P. Bundy. Bundy was then the Commission's StaIf Director, on leave from the CIA; he has since become the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. In this brief chapter, Bundy made some predictions about the future state of human affairs and offered some guidelines for the U.S. policy with respect to these anticipated events. His basic analysis is Malthusian. The central problem is one of population growth outstripping economic growth.

The specific character of the anti-poverty measures now under public discussion in the U.S. can best be understood as the extension of responses associated with the scientific, commercial, industrial and nationalist revolutions of recent centuries in Western Europe. The reduction of the percentage of the population that lives in poverty has been made possible by the economic growth that has accompanied extension of the market. The great conversion to a free contract, open market system was the dominant factor in a centuries-long war on poverty. Despite the progress, however, large numbers of families in the United States are still living in what is considered to be abject poverty for this society. It is the goal of the attack on poverty to eradicate the causes of such poverty and eventually eliminate it completely.

This article presents the author's experience of twentieth anniversary of Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, Soviet Union. The celebrations were both a commemorative ceremony to honor those who had died in the World War II and a self-congratulatory ceremony to celebrate the great postwar reconstruction and economic progress. The ceremonies were also intended as a special tribute to the army. The one thing of which the Russians are absolutely certain is that, what with Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, the United States is rapidly becoming the most generally detested country throughout the Afro-Asian world and will shortly be as heartily loathed throughout Latin America.

In this article the author examines the Community Stabilization Program (CSP) promoted in Iraq by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is explained that the CSP was USAID's major contribution to a solution in Iraq that was made up of civilian employment and economic development. The measure, which was supported by U.S. government funds, was actually financing corrupt Iraqi officials and the anti-American insurgency, leading to U.S. casualties according to the author.

Until recently, it has been commonplace to see Japan's emergence as a great power almost exclusively in economic terms. When talk of U.S. Japanese "joint hegemony" became fashionable only a few years ago, for example, cynics envisioned Japan as the banker of the new capitalist world order, while the United States remained its policeman. Armchair historians, for their part, solemnly observed that Japan had achieved superpower status at half the cost that prewar leaders thought necessary-that is, by building a rich nation without a strong military.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt now commands the symbols and dominates the American economy. The only considerable barrier to any reasonable program on behalf of economic reform is the Supreme Court. This barrier will not be permanent; it cannot be, when a people speak so emphatically. What will he do with his mandate and his power? Nobody knows, but one may hazard a guess, based on the trend. President Roosevelt is without dogma or fixed economic principles. He is not a Socialist, a single-taxer, a proponent of consumers' cooperation, or a rigorous social planner. He just wants to make people more comfortable, and he passionately wants to save the land and resources of America so that oncoming generations may be comfortable.

Her people and her politics are the distinguishing features of Rhode Island. Geographically, Rhode Island can scarcely be called independent. Massachusetts on the east and north and Connecticut on the west have both felt that this upstart with its peculiar ideas and its desirable waterfront, ought to belong to them. Well-grounded fear of her more powerful neighbors and the resulting jealousy to preserve her own rights and privileges as a sovereign State, have colored all Rhode Island's economic development. Rhode Island is separatism personified.

To the people of the U.S., the overthrow of the communist regime of Guatemala was merely another incident in the West's anti-Communist crusade. For Guatemala, however, the event had far different implications, and the issue of communism was involved only because the U.S. injected it. To say that the only interest of the new government is to block communism in Guatemala and destroy a Soviet beachhead in the Americas is nonsense. Its chief target is the reforms, particularly the agrarian reform, which was expected to undermine the power of the landholders and the foreign enterprises.

The economic discussions at Caracas, Venezuela highlighted the need of underdeveloped countries for protection against wild fluctuations in the prices of raw materials which are often their chief source of income. The same subject is considered in a larger framework in two important documents published some weeks before the opening of the Inter-American Conference One is a United Nation's (UN) report entitled Commodity Trade and Economic Development; the other is a report on United States foreign economic policy While the latter is devoted mainly to tariff questions, it includes a section on commodity price agreements. UN experts insist that if agreements covering a fair number of commodities could be achieved, it would benefit many underdeveloped countries directly and all trading countries indirectly.

This article focuses on economic development of Southern States of the U.S. Atlanta, which makes everything from mechanical pencils to giant bombers, is beginning to look like New York. The steel city of Birmingham, center of the South's heavy industry, is going after new and diversified industry with civic gusto. Since World War II, billions have been invested in new industrial plants, putting two million Southerners to work. Research is new stuff in the South, but it is paying quick dividends. If technology has come late, it is working overtime.

The article presents political and economic updates of the world, as of October 14, 1897. Undoubtedly the best thing that could happen to Americans as regards the Bering Sea controversy would be the total disappearance of the seal herd from the U.S. territory or jurisdiction, or, better still, from the world. The poorest kind of an inheritance is to fall heir to a lawsuit, and this is what Americans gained when they took the Pribyloff Islands under their jurisdiction. In another update, the practical exhaustion of Spanish resources, after the tremendous exertions of the past two years in attempting to put down the Cuban rebellion, is admitted in Spain. It may not be true that the Bank of Spain has refused to advance $10,000,000 more to the Government, but it is certain that more money can be had, from that source or any other, only with the greatest difficulty and on the most onerous terms.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the U.S. One section of the article criticizes the rising opinion in the U.S. supporting war as an active policy of foreign relations. It says that in the first place, they try to destroy the influence of the last eighty years of international peace by preaching the barbarous European doctrine that war is a noble and inspiring national occupation, no matter what its cause or aims. Yet another section reveals the content of the unpublished letters of French writer and critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve's unpublished letters yielding an instructive idea of the great critic's attitude towards literary aspirants who sought aid and comfort from him.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the world. One of the section of the article focuses on the Sherman silver law. The idea that a party which had declared a law so intolerable that it ought to be repealed without delay, should propose to continue it in operation for another year, was in itself too absurd for serious consideration, and when the proposed extension for a twelvemonth of this "cowardly makeshift" was accompanied by other makeshift even more cowardly and dangerous, one had not the patience to discuss the matter. Another section of the article says that what has probably given rise to the notion that silver is dear to debtors, and that mankind is in debt, is, that a very large number of silver agitators are in debt, and want to pay off their obligations in a depreciated currency, but, compared to "the greatest portion of mankind," these gentlemen are a very small handful.

The article presents discussions on various topics. The railroads are the biggest single factor blocking recovery. That accounts for the Administration's anxiety to break the railroad log-jam. It is no secret that government money has been going into the railroads as into a bottomless pit. The Administration is eager on the one hand to give some confidence to the bond market, and on the other band to spur the purchase of railway equipment. How it can do both is a little difficult to see. The railroads have gone on a buying strike; many of them are so run down that they live from hand to mouth in operating terms.

Before the Marshall Plan was passed and the new military program was announced, the U.S. seemed to be headed toward an economic slump, perhaps next fall. Downward tendencies were already marked. In recent months the gap between production and mass consumption has widened. According to recent statistics, compiled by U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, consumer purchasing power is lower today than at any time since 1942. Mounting prices in the first three months of the year more than wiped out what gains had been made in individual income. The Marshall Plan alone probably cannot halt this tendency. It will of course increase the production of goods to be shipped load, and so tend to hold up prices and maintain employment.

Results of the Moscow conference have spread consternation among those elements in Tokyo. While there's many a slip `twixt the communiqué' and its realization, these decisions have narrowed the Soviet Union-American rift and enhanced the possibility of developing popular regimes in Japan, Korea and China without destructive civil wars. Russians may differ with on the speed of Japan's political and economic delousing and on the best methods for achieving objectives already blocked out. In Korea however, there is a yawning gap to be bridged.

The article presents the platform of the Farmer-Labor Party. The U.S. government is instituted to secure the people the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Democracy cannot exist unless all power is preserved to the people. The only excuse for the existence of government is to serve, not to rule, the people. In the U.S. the power of government, the priceless and inalienable heritage of the people, has been stolen from the people has been seized by a few men who control the wealth of the nation and by the tools of these men, maintained by them in public office to do their bidding.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the U.S. One of the section of the article analyzes the Constitutional right of the U.S. Senate to declare each subsidiary agreement under a general convention a separate treaty. Another section focuses on the meeting of the United Irish Societies. Resolutions were passed strongly approving the Senate for defeating the arbitration treaties, and denouncing the attempt to force them upon the country. Under a recent decision of the Attorney-General of the U.S., the Treasury Department was authorized to apply the drawback clause of the Dingley act to wheat imported for re-exportation as flour.

The article focuses on some political and economic developments. Japanese Government has at last allowed a number of war correspondents to join the army in Korea. It is but an expected decision which the French court renders against the Colombia shareholders in the Panama Co. Their suit, however, was the least of the legal difficulties in the way of the transfer to the United States. According to another information, it is now some twenty-two years since the last effort of an individual bond-holder to collect his money from a repudiating State failed in the Supreme Court.

The article presents information on various socio-economic developments. The U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, according to the dispatches from Washington, is facing a grave disagreement in his Cabinet. The report of Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmez Conrad on the postal scandals seriously reflects on both the Treasury and the Post-Office Department, and practically calls for the resignation of Robert J. Trace well, Comptroller of the Treasury. In another development, last week's testimony in the Shipbuilding case brought to public knowledge the memorandum of "bonuses" set aside for promoters.

The article presents information about political developments taking place at the international level. According to a snippet, the efforts of the I.R.A. were assisted by the economic policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Private security firms now bid on the job of guarding many of Great Britain's military installations. This is hardly the first time the I.R.A. has attacked military bands. Before they were gunned down, the Gibraltar Three were planning to blow up a band, and there have been other successful assaults. Another snippet presents information about the American press coverage of the strikes by coal miners in the United States and the Soviet Union. The press had systematically neglected the workers' strike at the Pittston mines in Virginia while inundating the citizenry with details of the miners' strike in the Soviet Union.

The Socialists' parliamentary coup in Milwaukee city government laid the basis for probably the most ambitious social and economic program attempted recently in an American municipality. The elections had doubled the Socialist representation in the City Council, and three of the four major administrative offices fell to Socialists. At the inaugural session the twelve Socialist aldermen secured the support of two non-partisan insurgents--in barter for a minor appointment, it is whispered--and proceeded to override the non-partisan bloc by a single vote, winning the privilege of organizing the council.

The article focuses on the U.S. economy. Many economic records were broken in 1951. According to Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the total output of goods and services was 10 per cent higher than in 1950 and 5 per cent above 1944, the previous all time peak. Employment figures reached an all-time high in August when 62,600,000 men and women had jobs and less than 3 per cent of the labor force was unemployed. Many trades in many areas have been complaining about labor shortages. Nevertheless, there is also unemployment or underemployment in some industries adversely affected by the diversion of raw materials to defense.

There is a little to say about Germany that readers of the journal "The Nation," do not already know. Political and economic developments in the Federal Republic have been amply described. The only thing to add is that their bitter fruits have ripened faster than the most pessimistic observer could have foreseen. At the root of the evil is the conflict between East and West, with its fatal effect upon the German policy of the United States and the other Western Allies. From month to month it becomes plainer that the cold war has consumed all the ideals in whose name the peoples of the world were called upon to slay the Nazi dragon.

The article focuses on proposed changes in future conferences of the American Federation of Labor. That in the Atlantic City, New Jersey it was the last machine-controlled meeting of that organization was opined. Furthermore there was not a vote against the machine's proposal to give the various trades departments a seat each in future conventions, although it was quite obvious that this move was intended simply to accord a voice to several reactionaries who have been defeated by their own internationals.

Focuses on ways to restore popular faith of the people of the U.S. in political leaders and processes of government. Significance of the election process in choosing an appropriate leader; Qualities which should be present in an ideal political leader; Views of the people of the U.S. about President Richard Nixon; Effect of the leadership problem on social and economic development of the country.

Presents letters to the editor about world politics. Controversies surrounding the Watergate crisis in the U.S.; Dispute over the territorial limits of Bay of Fundy; Factors associated with economic vitality in postwar Germany and Japan.

The article presents information on the economic developments in the U.S. When the U.S. Supreme Court, acting under the Sherman Law, began to decree the dissolution of certain great so-called "Trusts," there was an agonized outcry, from both Wall Street and the investing community. Wall Street's distress was caused by the conviction, which had been carefully instilled into its mind by the financial leaders, that one could not go on doing business successfully without these enormous combinations of corporations.