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...Nicolo was elected by the Grand Council Secretary of the Republic of Florence, a lowlier post than the sound of it. For 14 years he compiled minutes, addressed envelopes, jogged ahorseback on 23 insignificant missions abroad, to say nothing of countless trips on domestic matters. Wherever he went he gleaned bits of information which he fitted into his political philosophy...
...there is a lowlier empire in which Mr. James is a conspicuous servant of those who serve. To religion, to charity, he gives lavishly both time and money. Of the eminent liberal Union Theological Seminary he is a director...
...late afternoon the mountains were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored...
Realizing the necessity of putting the profession in a place where it would gain the respect of larger numbers of the people who make up the lowlier walks of life and of making it more difficult for them to be imposed upon by those who little claim to be called lawyers, the profession during the past fifty-years has put on foot various reforms. Probably the greatest of these are first, the reform in procedure, second the raising of the standards required for those who desired to become members of the profession, and lastly the legal aid movement...