Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
With this demonstration to give him confidence, Councilman Quill answered the A. L. P. Taking a line much like that of the Communist Daily Worker, Mr. Quill called A. L. P.'s summons to battle against Communism and Naziism a piece of warmongering, hotly refused to endorse the resolution. "I never have been and am not a member of the Communist Party," said he. "I refuse, however, to join any witch hunt. ... I refuse to participate in a campaign which leads inevitably to the suppression of the labor movement and all liberal and progressive forces in the nation...
Heavy as was the cost of the depression in terms of human distress, its intellectual wreckage was almost as great; like those dump heaps of wrecked cars that lie out-side U. S. towns, U. S. brains contained large and unsightly piles of wrecked theories, junked plans, smashed hopes-a wheel off an old 1933 model Technocracy, an axle from Share the Wealth, a busted headlight from Production for Use, fragments of Marxism and the planned economy, half-a-dozen old Utopias that never ran. Here & there under the wreckage were old pieces of twisted slogans, moneychangers...
...cotton that had once been called the king of a kingless country, and which like a dethroned monarch of agriculture forever conspired to rule again grew in its inexhaustible luxuriance-over the eight States south of the Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate...
...exhausted fields of Pennsylvania, with the wells sinking two miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish...