Word: parvenus
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...whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis and the O'Piggys, in their scramble for jobs, have upset the trough...
...Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...
...Armenians who are thus blindly massacred? Are they parvenus, intruders upon the Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...