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This represented, in the words of one early Morris biographer, “the most vulgar kind of bill-kiting.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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This represented, in the words of one early Morris biographer, “the most vulgar kind of bill-kiting.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
bourbonmots commented on the word bill-kiting
“Finally, in the manner of all desperate enterprises, the Finance Office shifted its debts among its creditors like peas in a shell game. William Graham Summer, the nineteenth-century economist and a great admirer of Robert Morris’s, called it ‘the most vulgar kind of bill-kiting.’”
-- Richard Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary, p69 of the Free Press paperback
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August 31, 2011