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Byrd has dominated Virginia politics through networks of county officials entirely subservient to the Democratic organization. Men who disagreed with the Senator on any issue were simply denied public office for the rest of their lives. Dissenting candidates simply cannot win elections with the small, well-to-do electorate and incredibly low voter turnout. Few Virginia Governors have received the votes of as much as 10 per cent of the state's adult population in the decisive Democratic primary...
COMBO'S prescription is to ask mer chants and well-to-do residents to do nate virtually anything they can part with-except cash. Individuals are in vited to turn over their summer homes when they do not plan to use them. As for businesses, airlines are asked to give away empty seats on long-distance flights, laundries to volunteer a few weeks of free washing - all taxdeductible. Then everything is auctioned off at a gala dinner attended by the city's best people...
Matthew Stanton is an Irish immigrant to the Brooklyn of the 1890's. For three years he lives with the older, well-to-do Aggie Hogan. Believing that she has been unfaithful to him with Edward Quinn, Brooklyn's mayor, Stanton flees to England where he marries an Irish girl of good family in a civil ceremony. Matthew and Kathleen return to Brooklyn to start a new life. Matthew becomes a political power and at the beginning of the play decides to challenge Quinn for the mayoralty nomination. However, when what's left of Aggie Hogan dies, the unfinished business...
...Frederique swore that she would get what she wanted from men and never give anything in return. She married a provincial homosexual, set herself up as a confidence-woman. With her husband as a partner, she euchred a couple of well-to-do industrialists out of 800,000 francs. Partly out of a desire for revenue, partly out of simple desire, both industrialists decided to seduce the lady. She agreeably went off to America with one of them, came back with her virginity intact. Then she convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial...
...growing sideline with Gornitzka is advising other ministers on how to deal with rich constituents. He is convinced that many pastors stand in awe of the well-to-do. But if a camel can go through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man can enter the kingdom of God, it would appear that plain preachers can often give the rich a little extra spiritual help...