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Widow's Mite. As the dowager empress of tin, Albina will not have as easy a time as her ruthless husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman...
...mite, Or rank with other impoverished lands...
Andrew bought it. From that time on he was lost and godless in the eyes of Bishop John Helmuth and the others. In accordance with the 17th article of the Amish doctrine, the Dordrecht Confession of Faith,* the Mennonite "mite" or "shun" was placed against him. It declares: ". . . we believe and confess that if anyone . . . is so far fallen as to be separated from God ... he must also be shunned so that we may not become defiled . . . [and] that he may be made ashamed...
...jury agreed with Andrew but reduced the damages from $40,000 to $5,000. The court ordered the church to lift the mite. Andrew seemed satisfied, said, "I think they will think for some time before they put on any more bans." He would be permitted to worship in an Amish Church but he would have no voice in the church or be admitted to communion. To the stubborn Amishmen, who frown upon court actions, God's law came before that of men. Andrew would still be under a mite of a mite...
...endowment fund for current expenditures. Add two million in "gifts for immediate use," nearly five million in reimbursement on Government contracts, and close to twelve million in tuition, and you have the total income of Harvard University in 1946-47--some twenty-five million dollars. Expenses ran a mite lower, leaving the University $369,333 in the black for the year...