Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baking contest he staged as salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence...
Nobody can say that quiet Samuel Insull of the froglike smile and secret methods was not generous. With millions at his control he was not apt to forget a past favor, or a possible future one. For some time Chicago tongues have wagged concerning the existence of an "Insull Christmas List," said to contain 1,600 names. Last week this list was not published, but a "syndicate list" of Insull Utility Investments was. It showed 205 favored persons and firms who had been allowed to buy 250,000 shares of the company's stock at $12 a share just...
Word of these activities was quickly carried to Sheriff Percy Lainson who lets no one forget that he served as a captain overseas with the Rainbow Division. This 225-lb. pillar of the law loudly announced: "We're going to stop this picketing if we have to use 5,000 deputies to do it. Probably not over 100 Pottawattamie County farmers are involved in this affair. The others are hoodlums. Many are from Sioux City, the toughest town in Iowa...
...Never forget it, comrades, and repeat it a hundred times so you will say it in your dreams?THE JEWS ARE TO BLAME! They will never escape the tribunals they deserve...
...with it. Terribly sorry but terribly proud too, Philippe confesses, hopes Vinca will not want to kill herself. Much to his surprise, she does just the opposite; to his bewildered chagrin, takes it in her uncanny feminine stride, teaches him a lesson about women that he will never forget, never understand...