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...lettering proclaimed, the trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Honorary Spoof | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

Count Volpi returned to the floor. Of the deputies, 224 voted to adopt the Italo-British settlement. One Communist Deputy voted contra populum. With unusual magnanimnity his Fascist peers forebore to assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratified | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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