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...oldest bank in the U.S. operating under its original charter, the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was the offshoot of a firm chartered, with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, to build Manhattan's first waterworks, use any excess capital in "moneyed transactions." To break the Federalist Party's monopoly on New York banking, the water merchants bought (for $30,000) a house at 40 Wall Street (still the bank's address), opened for business...
David A. Hanson '55, World Federalist delegate, speaking only for himself, termed the poll "the right idea with a good purpose." Hanson said the World Federalists are meeting on Thursday and will take a stand on the poll at that time...
...troubled waters of America today." The chief moorings seem to be the dinners or luncheon, such as the one for Marquand, at which the honored guest, usually a businessman and always a Newcomener, tells the story of how his own organization became a success. (Marquand spoke on "Federalist Newburyport.") The speech is often printed in booklet form by the Princeton University Press and widely distributed by the society-usually at the expense of the honored guest or his employer...
...Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant...
...Interim Committee of American Federalist Youth, which sponsored the convention, arose last summer from protests by some student members against certain policies of United World Federalists, of which H.W.F. is a chapter...