Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What it seemed to boil down to was fear of what the landlord, the butcher, the baker-the other fellow-was going to do. Maybe everybody would now try to make a killing. And then again, maybe he wouldn't. The U.S. people, at bottom, have a great deal of common sense. Now they would be called upon...
...Dick the Butcher: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers...
...Peru, housewives were being turned away from empty-shelved butcher and bakery shops; if the Government acceded to Hoover's request for a 40% cut in local food consumption, it might well write its own downfall. By the time Hoover got to Santiago, he announced flatly that he expected no help from Chile...
...Miracle Man." Al Whitney's father was a circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary...
...pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a charge of extortion be filed against the teamsters on behalf of a butcher named Bonkovitch. Detroit's editors were acting as though they had a burr in their pants. So was many a citizen. Labor baiting was rampant everywhere...