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This situation has its pathetic side, aside from the implied underselling by other cities. For an old lawyer, grown fat with riches gathered beside the Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
...Then, if the loan fund should be exhausted, the Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...Congressional districts of most states are anachronistic. Instead of redistricting themselves as their populations have grown, the States have been allowed, since the reapportionment of 1842, to elect new Representatives allotted to them "at large," i. e. by statewide instead of district vote. The present ratio of representation is one Representative to every 211,877 citizens. A congressman-at-large acquires a certain prestige from winning a statewide election; but, in Congress, he or she has no special position...
...Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated the Shah's Minister of Public Works, the Emir Lashkar...
...should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen...