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Even less popular than the silver dollar has been the two-dollar bill. Blackamoor dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...
...found itself printing (in 1926) 227,566,949 sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself...
...church is less honest than business, to the world and to itself. "The statistics which are issued by the Protestant churches are not sincere statistics." There is hardly a roll of "active" church members which is not impressively padded with inactive members. Big corporations have the sense and honesty to write false assets and known liabilities off their books. Not so the churches...
This Constitution does, however, in spite of the fallacies which to the observer appear sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily...
...flood recedes more than half a million Americans, men, women and children, will have seen their homes swallowed up in the deluge, their crops destroyed, their businesses ruined? . . . The flood is still roaring on its devastating way in Louisiana and thousands are daily being added to the long roll of those who are under the care and protection of the Red Cross...