Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peasants in other people's fields, predatory hideous money-mad then to your tents, O Israel! After hearing Keynoter Bowers, a colyumist quipped:* "This is not a convention. It's an elephant roast." The New York Times, than which the Democracy has no stauncher supporter, welcomed subsequent aids "to the process of forgetting Mr. Bowers." The New York World apologized: "Certainly one thing may be said. ... It was . . . scorching. . . . Mr. Bowers had no ordinary task. . . . He faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when...
...apply 18 highgrade padlocks. Pending the trials, however, all the clubs stayed open, did business indignantly. The raided proprietors accused their prosecutors of publicity-seeking. "Why do they pick on us," said one man, "when there are 22,000 speakeasies in the city where they rob you of your money and sell you poison liquor...
...preparatory schools and colleges, big boys sell the radiators, fire-escapes, bedroom crockery, etc., to smaller boys. In Chicago, big boys sell small boys the privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week...
...greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian relief fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
...tireless autographer of balls, fond of track athletics and very poor at them, Goslin has proved himself for a long time a fine batter. Last spring he bet "Memphis Bill" Terry, Giant first baseman, $5 he could beat him sprinting, lost his five. A little later, with no money up, he tried to throw the discus, strained his arm. Unable to win games without...