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...folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece of 1864 and is imprinted on all current U.S. coins except the buffalo nickel. Two years ago Congress ordered the motto added to greenbacks, last year made it - instead of E Pluribus Unum -the nation's official motto...
...were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan and Hart relied on "knockdown...
...Ordered, in the House, the motto "In God We Trust" to be inscribed on all new greenbacks, although that is not the official national motto ("E pluribus unum" is). "In God We Trust" has been used on coins for almost a century, never on bills...
...fall campaign has given the co-chairman just the chance they needed to find an efficient yet flexible solution for the charities problem. The Committee has made the recipient charities as personal as possible and has coordinated all the separate drives throughout the University into a single campaign. "E Pluribus Unum" represents the organizational aim of the committeemen. Its monetary significance should induce students to respond generously...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...