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Exploitation of labor continued for generations. As late as the 1890s, Henry C. Frick, after breaking a strike at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pa., reduced wages and re-established an 84-hour work week. At the other end of the scale, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists accumulated immense fortunes, in part because they proved Adam Smith wrong in thinking that an unregulated market could not be monopolized. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson, no radical, lamented that "we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless...
...manipulation. He seems not to have read them, only read about them. He imagines, for instance, that Greenberg somehow invented the issue of pictorial flatness, which had been a subject of continual debate among European artists and critics since the days of Maurice Denis and Paul Gauguin in the 1890s...
Francis Dummer Fisher '47 was born in 1926 in a suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went...
...They were imported from Europe in the 1890s by a wealthy New York drug manufacturer who wanted to establish in the U.S. all the birds mentioned anywhere in Shakespeare's works. Unfortunately, the starling was mentioned once in Henry IV, Part I: "Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer...
...picked up the habit of smoking Cuban cigars. They had a very mild taste--sometimes almost sweet. One of the officials began. "Comrades and friends, we welcome your delegation. Today we will exchange discussion on the history of Cuba from the beginning of U.S. imperialism in the 1890s to the triumph of the revolution...