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Word: plunders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zionist Congress should require special police protection. It is hardly pleasant to attend a meeting patrolled by police, mounted and afoot, and to find one's sole interest personal security, because of the threats of the rowdies and hooligans, stimulated by liquor and fortified by the hope of plunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Vienna | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...election of a Republican as President, with a reliable working majority in Congress, means nothing more than an extension for four years of an unlimited license to plunder the American people, then I cannot be a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Animadversion | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: At Manhattan | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER FINDS OLDEST OF BUDDHIST CHAPELS | 5/27/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/17/1920 | See Source »

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