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...work out something, and we go on from where we leave off. That's my religion, though I was brought up an Episcopalian. For myself, I'm certain that I have lived before, that I stored up considerable experience before the present stage, and that I will proceed to the next stage when this is finished. It's all trial-and-error, but based, I guess, on certain fundamentals...
...anemic niece of the local bookdealer, comes to help in her uncle's shop. Philip gets himself engaged to Millicent who at once takes brittle command over his aimless, hungry existence. Occasionally Philip has done rough drawings which have sold for a few shillings. So that she can proceed unhampered with wedding plans, Millicent sends him away to sketch for a summer in France...
...House bill was not only an endorsement of the Reserve's credit-pumping policy but an order for it to continue as a matter of law. The Reserve was given no specific instructions on how to proceed but was left free to work on the theory that credit controls the value of money and the value of money in turn controls prices. By increasing credit the value of the dollar would decline and by comparison commodity prices would appear to rise. And higher commodity prices were what a majority of the House wanted to see before election...
Given a stock, smart Pressagent Plummer would "proceed to convince these financial newsboys that he had a good story." Congressman La Guardia added: 'He's been telling about some of these things lately, and since then he has been a harassed man, under indictment." Asked to explain the indictment, Mr. La Guardia said genially: "Well, it seems that he started to write a book, The Great American Swindle, or so he tells me ... and he says that in order to obtain some of his facts he had to act like a criminal. He was trying to show that forged securities...
...well for Governor Judd to assert his opinion on the matter, for to have allowed the case to proceed through the indefinite and sympathetic channels of the law would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task...