Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Selina goes to Chicago to try to sell some of her produce, she runs into Julie Hempel, old schooldays' friend. Julie's father, Aug Hempel, ex-butcher, is by this time one of the world's largest meatpackers. He offers to give Selina whatever she wishes. She will take nothing, except a loan-enough to modernize her farm. And with her modernized farm she educates Dirk...
...opening the series of addresses arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken...
...Koppel Bier, a butcher of Hoboken, N. J., 104 years of age, called at the White House and promised Mr. Coolidge the votes of himself and 146 descendants...
...Food conditions in Germany were acute even when I was over there last summer," said Professor Lord. "In Munich and Berlin even then it was a common sight to see crowds camping out all night in front of the butcher shops. The general feeling is that starvation is certain this winter. Conditions become worse every week. And of course the financial status of the country is ludicrous...
...found in the Turks a people of integrity and tolerance, but because they refused to turn Christian, we have visited the butcher-legend upon them while exalting Greeks and Armenians upon an equally artificial martyr-legend. Among Imperialists, one can understand the necessity of an inflexible attitude of superiority, but among Christians it corresponds neither to reality nor to the teachings of the First Christian...