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...Justice for one W. E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years ago it had reached ?160, and both Mr. Notman and his longtime fianc...
...road is a striking engineering achievement, marked by easy grades and wide curves, which seemingly tempt the average driver to "hit it up," for speeds of 60 m.p.h. and better were common until Highway Patrol Chief Ray Cato started to police the stretch...
...Howdy do, Isaac, where is Jacob? Hello, Joseph! Say, old man, that was a rough deal they tried to put over on you down in Egypt, when that woman tried to tempt you and you looked her square in the face and pushed her away. Say, Joseph, I like you." Then Billy Sunday asked for Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip. Finally he asked a favor of Jesus: Could he hang around the gate to welcome his family in? "You can sit right there, Bill, if you want to. It's all right." So he hung around the gate, waiting...
Seven o'clock came and Huey Long began to twit Senators about dinner engagements, then to tempt them with tall talk about food...
...special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...