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...courage of the War Liberals, for it would appear that a democratizing process is really under way there. Labor has increased its voice in the government councils, taxation is having a levelling effect, and the morale of the old reactionary ruling group seems to have been shaken. Peer and pauper are getting to know each other in the chummy atmosphere of a bomb shelter...
...youthful Main Line socialite and financier. Son of the late Daniel B. C. Catherwood, tea merchant, banker, yachtsman, with his mother (now dead) and sister young Catherwood inherited $15,000,000 outright in 1929, and trust funds that even in lean 1932 paid him $1445,070. His wife, no pauper, is Virginia Tucker Kent (daughter of onetime Radioman Atwater Kent...
...could see: "An America devoted to our freedom-unified by tolerance, unified by religious faith, a people consecrated to ... peace. . . ." The rallies had ended. But talk still filled the air; radios still blasted on; newspapers loosed their final barrage. Democrats blossomed out in Philadelphia wearing buttons inscribed: "Another Pauper for Roosevelt." Diviners peered into the entrails of fishes, gazed at the geese in the sky, studied statistics, made Delphic guesses: Roosevelt (or Willkie...
...Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered old man in 1878. And nobody has the clear credit...
...Last week, the report of a special committee to investigate relief administration in New Jersey was laid before the Legislature. The committee's recommendation: declare a pauper every "adult, able-bodied male of sound mind" who has spent three consecutive years on relief. According to New Jersey's State Constitution, no pauper can vote...