Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signature was that of the present Mayor of Indianapolis, J. L. Duvall. But Mayor Duvall, Mr. Adams made clear, was nothing. He was dealing not with Mayor Duvall but with a man who had kept half a dozen Indiana Mayors in his pay, a man who had controlled the lower house of the State legislature, who had ruled the state constabulary and the highway police, who had kept an airplane with a gilded snout, a private yacht on Buckeye Lake, who had given parties modeled on those of the later Caesars, who had said-his thin voice rising...
...charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life. This man's premature demise was brought on himself by his constant refusal to hear his master's voice. . . . Let us all take a damn fine drink now as we lower John to his final resting place in oblivion. Amen...
...left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South, West. No entourage traveling with her, no maid even, no road manager. Just Schumann Heink, taking an upper when she could not get a lower, hater of temperament, lover of her children, lover of soldiers the world over, of corn' beef and cabbage . . . shrewd . . . generous...
Labor has always meant to the public an organization which was striving to promote the lower classes at the expenses of the middle and upper class. Such perverted offspring of the American Federation as was the I. W. W., strengthened this brief. Labor, to the world, meant a force moving steadily coward toward communism...
...hundreds of builders day and night to put up a 44-acre warehouse. Then he signed full-page advertisements in the press saying that he would lend six cents a pound on every pound of cotton stored in his warehouse. His storage charge was ludicrously low; his insurance rate lower than any other storehouse in the world. Millions of dollars' worth of cotton poured in. The owners he had saved from bankruptcy sold their cotton later for twelve cents a pound...