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...traditional Quaker ministry is unpaid, drawn from the rank & file of the meeting, any member of whom could theoretically qualify. But today many meetings - chiefly west of the Appalachians - employ regular pastors † One non-Quaker deeply affected by Elias Hicks was Walt Whitman. He considered Hicks's preaching one of the great experiences of his boyhood, kept a picture of Hicks in his bedroom as long as he lived...
...found out enough to doubt that the department-store system would work on a national scale.* For one thing, personnel costs might leave the Government little net return (in New Orleans the 230 clerks were unpaid volunteers). And the elimination of red tape made it too easy for nonveterans to get surpluses by borrowing a set of discharge papers...
...Money. In Columbus, Ohio, a race horse named Depression was auctioned to meet his unpaid feed bill...
...pink knight among newspapers, the hyperthyroid tabloid PM, has everything it takes to be a great newspaper-except readers. Its 165,000 nickel-a-day "shareholders" (over 200,000 pay a dime on Sundays) make up a weekly $60,000 pot, but each week some bills go unpaid. For most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor $4,318,000 and the end was not yet in sight. Said...
...cigar's sickness ... a gas inspector is like an insect on a salad. . . . Your wife "will have hair as white as sugar and her ears will be unpaid bills - unpaid because you are dead...