The Creighton Chronicle . ndfined the offender twenty auri (about eighty dollars). Personsattempting to raise the price of food by keeping provisionsout of the market were known as dardanarii. In the time ofAugustus, the task of safeguarding the people against extortionin the purchase of food supplies was delegated to an official whowas known as the praefectus annonae. Thus it would seem that the profiteer is of ancient lineageand is by no means a product of these burdensome post-war General Palmer lately promised a solution of our mostpressing High Cost of Living problems, if Co
The Creighton Chronicle . ndfined the offender twenty auri (about eighty dollars). Personsattempting to raise the price of food by keeping provisionsout of the market were known as dardanarii. In the time ofAugustus, the task of safeguarding the people against extortionin the purchase of food supplies was delegated to an official whowas known as the praefectus annonae. Thus it would seem that the profiteer is of ancient lineageand is by no means a product of these burdensome post-war General Palmer lately promised a solution of our mostpressing High Cost of Living problems, if Congress would passthe legislation which he proposed. Despite President Wilsonsapproval the Senate has not seen fit to follow the lead of theHouse in voting for the legislation. Can it be that the learnedSenators have been reading some of Englands repealingstatutes, designed to remove the heavy hand of the law fromForestallers, Engrossers and Regrators? ^!!i«Hi;;(;!