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Word: goblins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power systems. But only a cartoonist could attempt to personify Mr. Morgan as Big Utility Goblin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Power | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...after its organization. He agreed to pay all expenses of the central office and $75 a week to Simmons. When Clarke's system was perfected, $4 of the original fee went to the local Kleagle, $1 to the King Kleagle or state sales-manager, $0.50 to the Grand Goblin, or head of the local Klan. The remaining $4.50 went to Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Washington Splurge | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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