Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Legislative Committee under Samuel Seabury investigating Tam many Town wanted to question ex-Convict Maier, now grown rich and politically important as a manipulator of German votes. What did David Maier know about an evil-smelling city pier lease? But the onetime brothel keeper was not to be found until the hawk-eyed press spotted him 4,000 mi. away ? junketing around Europe with no less a person than Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker (TIME, Sept...
...city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade but gulps women. A month with one is always enough to slake Reinhold's thirst; then he has a terrible time getting rid of her. Biberkopf helps him by taking over his castoffs; for a time they are great cronies...
...believe I have taken the proper course. . . . Will the measures which have been adopted or recommended prove sufficient to withstand the evil? We must hope so. As to the remedies which will act more profoundly . . . these remedies demand, above everything else, an evolution of a political and moral nature...
Lengthiest and most vindictive telegram was to Governor Woodring. In several thousand bitter words eloquent Mr. Doherty explained that he had liked the Governor at first, but suspects him of being "under the evil influence of the men who control the Kansas City Star." He went on to say that when his company first went to Kansas 15 years ago many of the local gas companies had been bankrupted by the Star's crusading, that he had brought heat and light to suffering communities. The consumers, he said, had not been consulted in the present fight, nor had the facts...
...Gandhi has always said that the grinding poverty of India's half-starved masses is the root-evil of the whole Indian question. Last week the Royal Commission reported that "stark poverty" is the "major reason" for the Indian laborer's "comparative inefficiency...