Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most logical successor would be Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, young (55), in popularity the best middleman between Regulars and Insurgents. Last week Senator McNary moved up to Assistant Republican Leader when Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington resigned to succeed Wyoming's late great Warren as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Shrewd. Senator McNary will not openly contest the leadership with Senator Watson...
...Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing and stolen their clothes...
...also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...
...miners retort that lignite delivered in Berlin for $5.20 a ton retails for $9 a ton, which they claimed is too great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...