Today, It’s Not Easy to Match Noblesse With Oblige - New York Times

Today, It’s Not Easy to Match Noblesse With Oblige - New York Times: "“If you go outside that number, you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease,” he wrote. “We resolved to band together the respectable element of the city and by this union make such strength that no individual could withstand us.”"