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Shakily, the survivor of the gun battle picked up the radio microphone and called State Police headquarters: "This is the Rev. Mr. Gingery. Marvin is shot. I have killed the bank robber...
...Industrial Revolution turned the peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless proletariat, too. During the '305 it seemed to some that Marx had been right, and the myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little...
Anyway, Taylor takes her home and together they undertake to save American Big Business from a danger that has not seriously threatened it for a generation: the reign of the robber baron. For a while Taylor has to suffer an angry case of Ives, but in the end everybody agrees that "when power comes to exist for itself, it becomes a losing proposition...
...Robber Barren. In Rochester, asked why he gave himself up to police after heisting 114 pennies from a beanery cash register, William Manning grumbled: 'Well, where was I going...
Crowding in around J.D.R. Jr., exacerbating his public and private problems, came the pressures and problems of his time. Across the U.S. a tornado was roaring up against the robber barons, concentrating hardest and legitimately against the father, whipping fitfully at the son in cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual...