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...Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry asked for liberty or death have been told that he later made his pile in the Yazoo land swindle. Famed Chief Justice John Marshall is yanked from his niche, called the rock on which the Funding Fathers "rested secure in the enjoyment of special privileges...
...events more strongly than the weight of precedent. That six Harvard instructors recognized it as well, and spoke their minds in a public letter to the president, is a hopeful sign, and a particularly welcome antidote to the bast of the Seven Sages from their crack in the rock of Sound Money. CASTOR...
Because he has several times been Finance Minister, a mere suggestion let fall last week by Professor Englis of Brno Law School was enough to force down 7% on international exchange the Czechoslovak crown which has remained rock firm on gold for the last twelve years...
...powers in economic matters and to confer those powers on the organs of Il Duce's famed "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20, et seq.). This elaborate mechanism for integrating production, consumption, employment, profits, imports and exports is best able to function, Dictator Mussolini believes, on a rock-firm gold standard and eliminates all necessity for a managed currency...
...Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom's casting from his mind scruples and false sentiment about himself and Molly. Almost every detail of the Odyssey's action can be found, in disguised form...