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...members' near monopoly on government positions--and a scandal over the mysterious disappearance of a brother who broke secrecy--provoked the birth of American single-issue politics: the Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed its patriotic but egalitarian flavor abroad returned to swell the lodges...
Crace's portrayal of Jesus combines eerie realism with supernatural powers, sort of like a biblical X-Files. At this early stage in his short life the pious Jewish peasant thinks of himself as a gifted healer. Indeed, he cures one of his first patients--a dying merchant--with what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would...
...Think Different." Gandhi, in his younger days a sophisticated and Westernized lawyer, did indeed change his thinking more radically than most people do. Ghanshyam Das Birla, one of the merchant princes who backed him, once said, "He was more modern than I. But he made a conscious decision to go back to the Middle Ages." This is not, presumably, the revolutionary new direction in thought that the good folks at Apple are seeking to encourage...
Samuel A. Sheridan '98 started smoking after high school when he worked on a merchant marine ship...
...game was played mainly by bench players, knowing that the Merchant Marines did not pose a formidable challenge, which gave the starters of the first game the physical and emotional rest they needed...