Word: pawnshop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that not one dollar of the corporation's debentures has been offered to private investors but every dollar of them unloaded on the Federal Treasury is a clear portent of the burden the taxpayers will be compelled to endure. President Hoover has converted the Treasury into a national pawnshop and infected the central government with the fatal germ of financial socialism...
...give Judge Horner a forensic log-ride. Downstate rural clodhoppers gawped, snickered and nodded approvingly when he shouted: "My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will do if he gets to Springfield is open a pawnshop. He was put up by Tony Cermak [Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, who turned Thompson out of office] to get the Jewish vote, and he's trying to get the Catholic vote...
...back this airy promise with something solid for jobless men to chew on, Don Carlos ordered a half-million free meals served daily by the Government to Chile's unemployed. State pawnshops obeyed an order to return gratis sewing machines and all tools pawned by the "certified unemployed." Joyous crowds soon flocked around every pawnshop, roared "Viva Davila...
...official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room in which its owner was sleeping; also how the Brown Chief never did get back the trousers which held the watch which was in the room in which he was sleeping...
John Coolidge once bought a saxophone for $230, tooted it in the White House. His father objected. Son John sold the horn. Last week one Arnold Zahn of Brookline, Mass., obtained what was represented as being the Coolidge saxophone, at a Boston pawnshop...