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...Brazil, exhausted from suffering continuous humiliations at the hands of a bad government and alive to their sovereign prerogatives, not permitting themselves to fear the bombastic resistance on the part of the government, have been able to do their duty and to enforce their own civic opinions and thereby cater to foreign respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Where is the President? | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Hamilton's aristocratic theory of government, a president must, as a political officeholder, appear before the voting public as an apostle of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic doctrines. He must seem to exalt the mob's wisdom, bow to its righteous power, inflate its sense of selfimportance, cater to its emotional reflexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Mob | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...ridiculous. The workman can and does drink. He may prefer to make his own home brew, but if he does not there is ample opportunity to get what he wants at prices that he can or will afford. We do not subscribe to the idea that all speakeasies cater to the rich. The back room behind the corner grocery store in the average working community is just as much a speakeasy as the most elaborately furnished bar off Fifth Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Their Guns | 3/28/1930 | See Source »

Faced with the statement that perhaps those in the show business should attempt to elevate the tastes of their audiences rather than cater to them, she replied, "You and I know better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Greater Boston Girl Makes Good on Rosy Side of Big Time Footlights--Sophie Tells Secrets of Her Success | 10/10/1929 | See Source »

...smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater to persons who still regarded $1,000,000 as a considerable sum and to corporations not yet large enough to be viewed with alarm by the Federal Trade Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Exceptional Bank | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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