Word: plunderings
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...become the open sesame of power. It gained admittance to the robbers' cave and participation in the plunder. It has been the inspiration of this Administration's foreign, as well as domestic policy. The magic significance of its flow has awakened the State Department to an interest not only in Mexico and the United States of Colombia, but away off in the Near East. Truly the Administration might have boasted of two 'Secretaries...
...were out to find what we could about ancient Chinese Buddhist art and not on a trip for plunder. The conditions and surroundings in which these ancient treasures are found are almost as important in our search for knowledge of the ancient Chinese civilization as the art treasures themselves. It is regrettable that so much of the Chinese art imported to this country in recent years has been removed from its native surroundings without accurate records of the place from where it was taken...
...public rebuke of the strike "is but one more sacrifice in the human struggle against autocracy, injustice and wrong, out of which had grown a better and a brighter day for their successors and fellow-workers." Whether or not the Federation "endorses" Lenine and Trotzky and their robberies and plunder and the lasting ruin which they have visited upon Russia makes little difference, after such an exhibition of anti-social sympathy and influence as the adoption of the Boston police strike report. The police strike was a desertion of duty, no more and no less, and the responsibility...
...sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would be in ill accord with the rage of battle which...
...present, continued Mr. Cutting, owing to the greater plunder to be obtained there, corruption is rife in the cities. They are now the plague spots, which if cleansed, would in turn purify the State and the National governments. Municipal ownership is one of the phenomina of the groping spirit of conscience. Certainly we cannot afford to leave this spirit in the hands of demagogues. The steadily increasing expenses of government, due to philanthropic motives, can only be rescued from incompetent hands by the organization of conscience...