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Publication date: 1 August 1956

HUGH MACGREGOR

With the exception of general labouring, no profession, craft, trade, or occupation throws its gates so widely open to all and sundry, including rogues and “wise guys”, as Fleet…

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With the exception of general labouring, no profession, craft, trade, or occupation throws its gates so widely open to all and sundry, including rogues and “wise guys”, as Fleet Street, or the newspaper world. And the true Fleet Street man is peculiarly vulnerable to the attentions of the rogues and others, because, while he is one of the most knowledgeable of individuals, he is by training, and very often also by nature, an observer and a critic, not a doer. He seldom can make a fortune for himself, but is open to be used and abused in making fortunes—and large ones—for others. He is also very much an individualist, and so he and his colleagues can seldom agree on common action. Hence the opportunity of the exploiters and financial manipulators. Characteristically, you have not one, but two professional bodies representing the Fleet Street man—the Institute of Journalists, founded last century under Royal Charter, and the National Union of Journalists, founded before the first World War by a few Manchester journalists, which, instead of being Royal, or anything like it, linked itself to the Trade Union Congress, with wage and working conditions as its ruling concern.

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 August 1956

PHILIP M. WHITEMAN

In LIBRARY REVIEW, Autumn, 1952, Mr. A. R. Hewitt considered the illegality of fines for overdue books. The present writer examines recent trends in respect of fines and other…

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In LIBRARY REVIEW, Autumn, 1952, Mr. A. R. Hewitt considered the illegality of fines for overdue books. The present writer examines recent trends in respect of fines and other charges, with emphasis mainly on questions of principle rather than of law.

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 8
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ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 March 1927

LEWIS SPENCE

EDINBURGH'S prestige as a literary centre steadily declined after the death of Scott, and for a succeeding generation was lost in undistinguished shallows. Even Peveril became…

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EDINBURGH'S prestige as a literary centre steadily declined after the death of Scott, and for a succeeding generation was lost in undistinguished shallows. Even Peveril became enmeshed in the nets of London, and Stevenson, his might and native impulse notwithstanding, could not escape them any more than Hugh Walpole and Rebecca West in our generation. Edinburgh has, indeed, come to be more of a nursery for authors, editors and publishers than the nucleus of literary activity she was formerly but there are not wanting signs that she may presently reassume a measure of her vanished importance in the world of letters. A new and active generation is arising which is alive to the possibilities of cultivating its own vineyard, and to the occlusions and heartbreaking disappointments which so frequently accompany migration southward, and probably only adequate leadership is required to bring about a renascence of literary production of a much higher level than that now apparent.

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Library Review, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 December 2001

Thomas A. Lee

Reports on the role of UK emigrants to the USA in the creation and early development of its public accountancy profession. Explains findings in the context of US public…

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Reports on the role of UK emigrants to the USA in the creation and early development of its public accountancy profession. Explains findings in the context of US public accountancy firms founded by UK immigrants and focuses on the recruitment of qualified and unqualified public accountants from the UK. The study is based on searches of relevant archives in the UK and USA. The evidence reveals UK immigrants played a substantial part in the formation and early development of both public accountancy firms and institutions in the USA. However, the recruitment of immigrants by US firms appears to have been a temporary phenomenon pending the supply of US‐born accountants with suitable training and experience. The firms examined include local and national firms. Subject to data retrieval limitations, a major conclusion of the study is that unqualified immigrants played significant roles in the early histories of firms and institutions of US public accountancy.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 14 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 1 February 1972

British industry adapts too slowly to new ideas in management. Hugh Marlow explains the reasons and suggests a remedy.

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British industry adapts too slowly to new ideas in management. Hugh Marlow explains the reasons and suggests a remedy.

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Education + Training, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 28 August 2024

Hayley Baker and Jennifer Chisholm

Our chapter explores the impacts of genderwashing practices within Hockey Canada (HC), a national organization that governs major and minor hockey leagues in Canada. A 2018 case…

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Our chapter explores the impacts of genderwashing practices within Hockey Canada (HC), a national organization that governs major and minor hockey leagues in Canada. A 2018 case involving allegations of sexual assault by members of the U20 junior men's hockey team acted as a catalyst to expose HC's organizational practice of silencing victims and covering up bad behavior. Through the application of media content analysis, we argue that HC's responses to the case (financial settlements, Nondisclosure Agreements, and a new educational and training program) reflect genderwashing practices and exemplify a superficial attempt to address sexual violence within the organization. What results is a culture of silence, poor leadership, and the normalization of violence within HC. Our chapter contributes to the genderwashing literature, through the development and application of genderwashing as a conceptual framework that can be applied to responses to allegations of sexual assault.

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Publication date: 14 July 2006

David MacGregor

Pyrotechnic effects and spectacular death belong to the symbolism of terror and political assassination – bizarre techniques of miscommunication through fear practiced on the…

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Pyrotechnic effects and spectacular death belong to the symbolism of terror and political assassination – bizarre techniques of miscommunication through fear practiced on the innocent and designed to effect social change. While focusing on the use of terror in 9-11, this article deals with both terror and political assassination as closely related communicative practices of death. It outlines a theory of terrorism that suggests September 11 may be an example of expedient terrorist destruction ordered from within the state, a macabre instance of a state protection racket. Commentators on the left tend to see terrorism as a blow extended by the oppressed against exploiters. However, terrorism is much less likely to be a manifestation of a revolt by – or on behalf of – the underprivileged than a demonstration of brute force by the state or its agents. Machiavellian state terrorism is terror/assassination performed for reasons different from the publicized ones; often initiated by persons or groups other than those suspected of the act; and – most important – secretly perpetrated by, or on behalf, of the violated state itself. Machiavellian state terror advances the ruling agenda, while disguising itself as the work of individuals or groups opposed to the state's fundamental principles. As an example, the article reviews a mysterious 1971 assassination in Paris that obliquely foreshadows some critical elements of the official story of 9-11. The article underlines the importance of oppositional theorizing: questioning government and looking for connections between events are critical features of what it means to be vitally active in the political universe.

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The Hidden History of 9-11-2001
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-408-9

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Publication date: 1 April 1969

L.J. Harman, L.J. Widgery and Fenton Atkinson

December 10, 1968 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Subsequent independent injury — Injuries to left leg — Subsequent amputation of leg before trial owing to other causes…

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December 10, 1968 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Subsequent independent injury — Injuries to left leg — Subsequent amputation of leg before trial owing to other causes — Whether to be taken into account — Whether damages to be reduced — Apportionment — Principles on which Court of Appeal will interfere.

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Managerial Law, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

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Documents from the History of Economic Thought
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1423-2

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Publication date: 1 March 1950

LIBRARIES, in common with all other public institutions, must be faced with the uncertainty that arises from the inconclusive results of the recent General Election. We are not…

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LIBRARIES, in common with all other public institutions, must be faced with the uncertainty that arises from the inconclusive results of the recent General Election. We are not intimately concerned with parties and it is held that librarians should eschew them altogether as they have duties to, are the servants of, all. This consideration applies more to the public librarian than to the special one. Be that as it may, the change must postpone, we imagine, our chances of the new Public Libraries Act, because a new general election is probable in a very short time. Meanwhile, there is always uncertainty as to public expenditure and, although we do not expect anything drastic, it is hardly likely that our centenary year will see the beginnings of the library progress for which some had hoped. Most local rate‐budgets have, fortunately, been fixed by now.

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New Library World, vol. 52 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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