Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michaelson had visited him in Washington to discuss liquor and smuggling. Mr. Oftedal said that the Congressman had ejaculated: "To hell with generalities! What about my case? Am I going to have to see Ogden Mills [Undersecretary of the Treasury] about it again? What about those six trunks of mine at Jacksonville? I had freedom of the port...
...proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives. "If I try to speak of my painting," he wrote last winter in Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape...
...getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish with obvious labor in it). He demonstrates that...
...know the story! ... I want to denounce it as a miserable lie. I wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...
...always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form the New England Power Association and other companies, to employ such brains as Graustein of Graustark to fight Invader Insull and mine New England's White Gold themselves. Hydroelectric Minute Men, they set out to meet Mr. Insull with his own weapons. He had newspapers. They acquired the Herald and Traveler...