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These are not well-educated people. They are still fighting disease, malnutrition and poverty. . . . Perhaps the Albanians are the poorest people in Europe and the Balkans, but they are rich in a primitive love and reverence for personal liberty. For hundreds of years they have fought and died for just that. They are ready again...
...baby of the family, was also the poorest student, finished 393rd in a class...
Blended Powers. If all the people, even including the poorest of the people, are protected against tyranny by the universal rights guaranteed by the Constitution, they are also protected against the tyranny of any single arm of the government. But to Beard, this protection has not been achieved by any hard-&-fast "separation of the powers" into executive, legislative and judiciary. The powers of the various agencies of government, he says, have been "blended" and "interconnected" rather than separated. Congress is not a judiciary body, but it has the judicial power to impeach and try U.S. civil officers. The President...
...because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark...
...crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...