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...petition asking a special breakfast rate shows beyond a doubt that many who board outside prefer to live in the houses. Though such men as a rule comprise the wealthiest group in the college, to offer them a breakfast rate based on actual food costs cannot be regarded as an unfair privilege for the rich, particularly when the advantages of having them in the houses are considered. Furthermore the college does not stand to lose, as lunch and dinner would be served at the regular charges...
...wealthiest widows...
Oldest Episcopal church in California is San Francisco's Trinity, to which the State's wealthiest pioneer families used to belong. With changing times, Trinity was left stranded in a district of middle-class apartment houses. But with some old parishioners remaining, the old church still maintains an air of conservative respectability. For more than a year Trinity has been looking for a rector. Its vestry scrutinized the qualifications of 60 Episcopal ministers in 16 states. Finally, last August, the vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers...
...Although this profit is used for a worthy cause, it is profit nevertheloan, thus amashing any excuse that the high rates for the small contracts are economically necessary. It has been argued, also rather illogically, that club members not only form a distinct minority, but also make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they...
...week Boyd's City Dispatch mailed out to its clients Bulletin 68-the latest name-list quotations. For $200 an energetic advertising manager can get the names of 14,441 people in New York City worth $100,000 or more. A batch of 721 multimillionaires costs $15, the wealthiest widows of Greater New York (1,172), $20. For $17.50 a buyer may pick out 880 women of Washington, D. C. worth $100,000 and more, or, if he prefers, "969 wealthy Hebrews of Westchester." New York City Hebrews worth $50,000 to $100,000 are quoted at $75. Names...