... that they're going to lay out a new park at a certain place. I see my opportunity and I take it. I go to that place and I buy up all the land I can in the neighborhood. Then the board of this or that makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get... Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal - Página 100editado por - 1986 - 172 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
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...makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and...and foresight? Of course it is. Well, that's honest graft. Or supposin' it's a new bridge they're goin' to build. I get tipped off and I buy as much property... | |
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...that land which nobody cared particular for before. Ain't it perfectly right to charge a good profit and make a profit on my investment and foresight? Of course it is. Well, that's honest graft. 12. VO Key, pp. 395-98. 13. M.McMullan, p.197. 14. Bert F. Hoselitz. "Levels of Economic Performance... | |
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...makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody particularly cared for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and...and foresight? Of course it is. Well, that's honest graft. "Or supposing it's a new bridge they're going to build. I get tipped off and I buy as much property... | |
| Denis Tilden Lynch - 1927 - 482 páginas
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...makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before. "Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price...and foresight? Of course, it is. Well, that's honest graft. "Or, supposin' it's a new bridge they're goin' to build. I get tipped off and I buy as much... | |
| G. Calvin MacKenzie - 2004 - 228 páginas
...makes the plans public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particularly for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit on my investment and forethought? Of course it is. Well, that's honest graft." public service or a civil servant in government... | |
| H.W. Brands - 2002 - 383 páginas
...makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody particularly cared for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit 112 on my investment and foresight? Of course it is. Well, that's honest graft. "Or supposing it's... | |
| Jay Shafritz - 2004 - 319 páginas
...makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and...and foresight? Of course, it is. Well, that's honest graft." For more of Plunkitt 's wisdom, see William Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1963). 2. The... | |
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