Word: piker
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...Little Flower while he was preaching remonetization, the General stormed: "When a priest vowed to poverty and preaching to the poor flays the faith of a people to advance a monetary interest- his own or another-you can about conclude that Judas Iscariot was just a poor piker...
...prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content to leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold Jesus Christ...
...Lundoen is no piker. He would provide an unemployment, old age, and social insurance for all--at the expense of the national government. He would give a "just compensation" of $10 a week, plus $3 for each dependent to all workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide...
Mann: Why be a piker? Let's ... see who's champion of the United States...
...mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments, that Al Capone was a poor ignorant Sicilian piker...