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Reformer Morris had sent long questionnaires to several thousand high Federal officials, asking them about their private finances. The House subcommittee wondered if well-to-do Lawyer McGrath had yet filled out his copy of the questionnaire. Answer: "I haven't decided whether I'll fill it out or whether I will advise anybody else in the Government...
...wheezed, he stammered, he was handicapped by his own admission, while Minister of Health, that a shilling a prescription was fair to everyone.*Only in his peroration did Bevan's class consciousness inflame Tory tempers. Tories have decreed, he said, "Let the poor die first . . . Keep only the well-to-do alive...
...blind date one night in 1934 Keef met Nancy Piggott, a lively redhead who was visiting her well-to-do aunt in Chattanooga. Nancy was an American girl born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her U.S.-born father, Stephen Piggott, was a designer of marine engines for a Scottish firm, became a British subject and was subsequently knighted. Keef followed Nancy home to Scotland, and married her there. Back in Chattanooga, Keef's new wife-witty, wise and devoted-was a great social asset to a close-mouthed young lawyer. They were a popular couple. In 1937 the Chattanooga Junior Chamber...
...mentioned (favorably) the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, the Ten Commandments and the Constitution. He fair-dealed history, thus: "There are fewer poor people and more well-to-do people in this country now than ever before . . . This great record of progress is the result of our . . . Fair Deal . . ." The President, in closing, hoped the youngsters would carry on the high endeavor...
...Inner Life. An artist's duties, Kandinsky believed, "are precise, great, and holy." He came to those duties late. Born of a well-to-do Moscow family, he spent six years of research on the wages of Russian workmen, then at 30 went to study painting in Germany. He learned slowly, and had no success whatever until the publication of his book, On the Spiritual in Art, in 1912, which remains the Bible of the abstractionist movement...