Word: gresham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
...meeting at Gresham College tonight . . . there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dog let out . . . into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side. The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do well." Thus wrote Samuel Pepys...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...Protestants were ever more zealous in faith, more peppery in talk, more beloved by their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called...
...warmly-written, fact-laden essay on medieval Liibeck, centre of the Hanseatic League, sections devoted to business in Venice and Florence, to booms & crashes in Nurnberg, Antwerp, Bremen, the rise and fall of the Fuggers, the spectacular careers of Jacques Coeur, financier of Joan of Arc, and of Gresham, who backed Queen Elizabeth. But all this, with asides about church finances, taxes, makes up only the first half of the story of the businessman's endless race with ruin...