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Last week, in a humbler mood, the Post ran another editorial about Tycoon Wolfson. Asserting that it was doing so to avoid expensive and protracted litigation, the paper announced it was contributing $25,000 to a Wolfson charity, the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. "On his part," said the Post, "Mr. Wolfson is withdrawing the suit without any payment...
...that Kreuger had been the world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years. In another month Sweden's Prime Minister had toppled, bank clerks were committing suicide, and King Gustaf's brother, a heavy Kreuger investor, had to move to humbler lodgings. In May, Pope Pius XI gave the Kreuger legend its epitaph by issuing an encyclical, Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by the Charity of Christ), the gist of which was: "The i love of money is the root of all evils...
Fortunately, self-conscious passages such as these are as rare as caviar on the MLR. The humbler truth contained in both The Last Parallel and Give Us This Day is that America is blessed in her fighting men. Of them, as of the fallen Athenians whom Pericles mourned more than 2,000 years before, it might well be said that "esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, [they did] not weigh too nicely the perils...
...Iron Market, source of most of the city's food, were shut tight. In a scene reminiscent of The Emperor Jones, Magloire in full uniform paraded through town demanding that merchants open up. They either avoided their presidential visitor or refused his demands. Two days later, somewhat humbler, Magloire called in his constitutional successor, Supreme Court President Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, and turned over the office of chief executive...
...blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic in 1950 were loth to impose their democratic ways too swiftly on the 562 potentates who ruled their nation's princely states in unmatched autocratic panoply...