Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff theme lent itself also to the one embarrassing feature of the New England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
...Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western corner of Texas, then to Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico Border. Attorney-General Sargent and Governor Hunt of Arizona were both notified they would be held responsible for the Nominee's safety. There were two days of minor furore in minor circles. Then up turned Nominee Gitlow in Houston...
Bigger chunks and huge blocks of cement covered the ruins of an eight story building on the corner which had just collapsed?causing all the havoc, burying alive six score workmen...
...about such a Barnum harvest is the faith that guides college graduates year and again to succumb to a few whispered words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...
...composed of mature and experienced musicians who are paid by the Congress of the United States just for the purpose of furnishing music for the West Pointers march. This band will in all probability not execute any manoeuvres but as is its habit will march to one corner of the field and remain stationary until the completion of the drill...