Responsibility of states for damage caused in their territory to the person or property of foreigners

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Identifikator:: 1831665921

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222025

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Author:: Maúrtua, Víctor M.; Scott, James Brown http://d-nb.info/gnd/117654191

Title:: Responsibility of states for damage caused in their territory to the person or property of foreigners

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Oxford Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: V, 67 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Municipal legislation

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SYSTEM 13 The fear of such competition appears to have been the chief cause of the almost unanimous op position on the part of the members of the bank ing fraternity to all postal savings bank pro posals. Senator Cummins of Iowa said in the Senate: “The banks of the United States are opposed unanimously to the institution of a pos tal savings system. ... I venture the assertion that during the nearly two years that I have been a member of this body ... I have received the protests of nearly every bank in my State against any such scheme, and those protests have usually been accompanied by a very large number of peti tions, secured, I have no doubt, through the in dustry and energy of the bank officers.” 21 The American Bankers Association, through the Postal Savings Bank Committee of its Sav ings Bank Section, carried on for nearly three years an active propaganda against postal sav ings bank legislation, maintaining an active op position at Washington, 22 and distributing over the country an immense amount of literature. 23 p. 354. Cf. also William Lewins, History of Savings Banks, pp. 322 et seq. 21 Cong. Rec., June 20, 1910, pp. 8811-8812. 22 Cf. Chronicle, American Bankers Association Conven tion Supplement, 1909, pp. 207, 208 and 211. 23 The following is an illustration of the character of the campaign which the Committee on Postal Savings Banks conducted. On November 24, 1908, when the Carter Postal

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