Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The New York milk racket was notable and illustrative by virtue of its central figure, a lank, loose-knit individual named Larry Fay. First taxicabs, then night clubs were Larry Fay's game, the latter in collaboration with famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. Loose night clubs are crowded...
...Said he: "In Great Britain I am a party man, unashamed of it, glorying in it, but here today . . . I represent the whole nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about war, common enemy of all laborers in or out of politics. "Labor," he said, "bears the burdens, the pains, the sacrifices of war. I come . . . as a missionary of peace." U. S. Railroad Unions, with 400,000 members, have long been eyed wistfully by the A. F. of L. At the convention...
...Federal Reserve will, of course, enjoy this negative power in common with other central banks, though debarred by Washington from "entangling" positive potency...
...very common request comes from aunts and uncles of boys who they think just may be in Harvard, and if so, where do they live; all this expanded into a story telling much life history!" Just then the telephone rang and Mr. Dahlquist was sent searching through the files for the telephone number of some much sought-for Freshman
...hopeless task to try to arrange any conference on the matter. Agreements with gentlemen like Bingham of Harvard and Kennedy of Princeton are worth more than 50 commissioners of athletics. A little common sense properly applied will be worth the most in the long...