Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph S. Ochs exploded into a denunciation and a challenge. If M. Siegfried didn't know what a great newspaper was, if he by any chance was unaware that the New York Times, pillar of respectability, printed all the news that's fit to print and not another line, if he had the insolence to name the Times or any other "great newspaper,"-well, he would find out what a libel suit was like. "Produce," wrote Publisher Ochs,† "a single example of a 'great newspaper' which is subservient to advertisers . . . name newspaper and owner." Name...
This book, with its careful tracing of the Fortune's growth in each successive European crisis, is answer enough to the Waterloo legend. For years Europe believed that Nathan himself posted from Waterloo to London, took his accustomed place by a pillar on the Exchange and stood there, a picture of dejection and despair, while his agents bought what the world sold in frenzy, creating the Fortune in a single morning. Count Corti does not trouble to disprove the story; the Fortune was established long before Waterloo, and weathered the Napoleonic cyclone with its turbulent aftermath...
...says to Democrats in all sections of the country: "If you cannot agree about prohibition or about any other contentious issue nationally, agree to disagree about it locally. Make this freedom to disagree, and this willingness to revive a healthy local sovereignty, the basis of your actions and the pillar of your strength. You have Jefferson's word that it is sound governmental policy, and your own experience to tell you it is sound common sense...
...discovery of a bomb large enough to raze a five-story building beside an elevated railway pillar...
...broke away. . . . May they return to the common Father. He, forgetting the hard words they have hurled against the Apostolic See, will receive them with a heart of affection. . . . If they return, it must not be with the idea or hope that the Church of the Living God, the pillar and support of truth, will scrap its integrity and faith or tolerate their errors...