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...school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools was ignored in praise of their "freedom," their "contact with the students' daily life," and their "democracy." Finally, in a discussion of educational problems his concern with the "present-day care-freeness" of students in their dress, with their "carelessness and unwashed-ness" must seem misplaced...
...Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with the impact of religion on culture, insofar as it is ever possible wholly to dissociate the two. In the Middle Ages, especially in the XIIIth century, Christianity attained its cultural heights: "Europe has seen no greater Christian here than St. Francis, no greater Christian philosopher than...
...second oldest bank in Manhattan first opened for business at No. 40 Wall Street in 1799. Unable to obtain a bank charter from a New York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...
...House of Lucky Wedding Rings," "when the news reached us shortly thereafter, that on August 28, 1933, the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles, had held a one-day sale which so far surpassed all previous records as to make them look like the efforts of amateurs. The Slavick concern set a mark that astonished the entire silverware industry. They sold $44,000 worth of silver in one day, all of one brand, one pattern...
...course we, at the Samuels concern, were discouraged and considerably abashed. We had hoped to overtake the record and here suddenly the record was put far beyond reach. We couldn't see a glimmer of hope of any event that would enable us to challenge it. So we gave up the idea and tried to reconcile ourselves to see it held elsewhere. But it griped us. And to have that record held in Los Angeles of all cities...