Word: merchant
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Carl M. Johnson of the Law school, for several years college furnisher at Williams, calls the attention of students to his select line of the latest London novelties in men's furnishings and athletic goods in the store of Thos. F. Myles, Merchant tailor, Lyceum building. 28 6teod
Lysias was born at Athens in 459 B. C. He was the son of Cephalus, a rich merchant of Piraeus. His father's wealth enabled him to associate with the leading men of the city, and to pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character...
...American shipping interest can be restored without the cost of subsidies by a revision of the navigation law; primarily, by a revision in favor of the free purchase and ownership of vessels for foreign trade.- Well's Our Merchant Marine pp. 95-128; North American Review, vol. 142, pp. 481-484; Codman in Shipbuilders and Commerce phamphlets 4 and 2; Atlantic...
...Subsidies are objectionable, (a) artificial and temporizing expedients-Well's Our Merchant Marine, pp. 136-139. (b) have proved failures.- Well's, 138-140, 162-165, 113 115; (c) would be a tremendous cost.- Well's, p. 140; Codman, pp. 14, 18, 25; Congressional Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p. 3786; (d) profit would come wholly from subsidies.- Well's, pp. 140-142 (e) have proved and always will prove inducements to corrupt legislature.- Well's p. 139, Cong. Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p. 3860; (f) benefit one party at the expense of the whole country.- Well...
...expedient to encourage capital to enter an occupation which we must pursue at a relative disadvantage.- Lindsay Merchant Shipping...