Word: inveighed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what they can get-a situation boding ill for "shoestring" holders. In other places, the real estate profession staunchly declare rentals will not come down. In some localities, this may be true. Meanwhile, renters are holding back for lower rates-a tendency against which even New York realtors solemnly inveigh. Money continues very easy and very cheap. First mortgages run high, however, and second mortgages bear exorbitant interest rates...
Having paid this tribute to the source of news he turned to inveigh against the newspaper publishers for whom the correspondents work. Said he: "When we compare the British press with our own, the first thing that attracts our attention is the greater importance given by them to the serious news of the day, especially relating to matters of government, while sensational news regarding individuals is given a minor place...
...Department's active young charge, the Philippines, contined to inveigh against Governor General Wood...
...greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...