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...proposal to establish a uniform per kilowatt-hour rate for all users of electricity, one of three placed on the November 2 Massachusetts ballot on Wednesday, could lead to a tuition hike for Harvard students if voters approve the measure...
...letters he turns out each day. Many of them are written to Congress to stir up pay and equipment for the Army ("100,000 dollars will be but a fleabite to our demands at this time"), especially munitions. It took him months to get the Congress to approve uniform standards of pay, terms of reenlistment, and such things as the number of men prescribed for platoons, companies and brigades. But he has done...
...bells sounded the appointed hour of 11 o'clock on June 28, and the snare drums rolled darkly for Sergeant Thomas Hickey. All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder. The 80 soldiers in the ceremonial guard stood at attention, bayonets fixed. A crowd of thousands had gathered in a field just off New York's Bowery Lane to watch Sergeant Hickey die on the gallows. The condemned man was "unaffected and obstinate to the last," Artillary Surgeon William Eustis reported later, "except that when the chaplain took...
What force then will serve to spread wealth "to the lowest ranks of the people"? The law of the free marketplace, says Smith, by which even greed is predestined to do good. That is because it is based on everyone's self-interest, which he defines as "the uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition." His logic runs like this...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...