Word: choppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...Supreme Court, delivered by Chief Justice Taft, was apparently aimed as much at the law as at the particular instance of its operation: " It has never been supposed since the adoption of the Constitution that the business of the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, the wood chopper, the mining operator, or the miner [the Kansas law applies to the production and transportation of food, fuel and clothing], was clothed with such public interest that the price of his product or his wages could be fixed by state regulation...