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Lloyd Loreto Jr.
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The junior man was Frank Lloyd Wright.
Erik Larson • The Devil In The White City
105 Mount Street, Mayfair,
Roy Jenkins • Churchill: A Biography
The story of activist local government in the late nineteenth century – spearheaded and symbolized by Joseph Chamberlain in Birmingham – is a complex one, but two landmarks in a convoluted progress were the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, which reformed a corrupt and inefficient system of local government, and the Public Health Act of 1848. The
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In the French commune there is properly but one official functionary, namely, the Maire; and in New England we have seen that there are nineteen.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
It was not sufficiently religious, and, therefore, not sufficiently domestic; and the rich rode it down at last.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

Lord Canning had at first been quite open to the Chronicle’s suggestions, but was eventually, and reluctantly, persuaded not to order the levelling of the city. The man who persuaded him was John Lawrence.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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