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A large part of the exhibition is devoted to legislation or more properly royal decrees, affecting in various ways French shipping. There is an Act of 1635 providing for the rounding up "of tramps, vagabonds, and able-bodied unemployed to serve in the French Navy." One in 1756 ordered the...
In his 34 years, Ira Hirschmann has plu ged into many ventures, seen most of them succeed. Son of a Baltimore banker, Adolph B. Hirschmann, he studied economics at Johns Hopkins, left at 17, took up music with Peabody Institute instructors. At 20 he got a job as office boy...
Questioned as to whether there were any tramps ever come into the old pile of gloomy masonry, he said. "No." The only tramp he's ever had to throw out was one that came in while the Radcliffe Commencement was going on. "The gurris were leaving their pocketbooks around, and...
Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in...
Before Immediate Epic was promulgated, William Gibbs McAdoo tried to soothe his fellow Californians' rising hysteria from the vantage point of distant Washington. Said he: "This 'wolf scare' doesn't frighten me at all." But California property owners were now thoroughly alarmed. As capital continued to...