Word: duncehood
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...George F. Baer achieved American duncehood during the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902, when a resident of Wilkes-Barre wrote to him, as chief spokesman for the mine owners, to express anxiety at the ravages of the strike. Baer decided to explain himself. In a letter that was later widely circulated, especially among the United Mine Workers, he reassured his correspondent that some people were placed on earth to manage and others to serve, and that was the divine order of things. Said Baer: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared...
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