Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotten . . . Reckless." Most recent case involved the Tribune and the Sun. For days, workers at Chicago's Studebaker aircraft-engine plant had been targets of a Tribune tirade, charging that they were loafers, malingerers and gamblers and that their union leaders were Communists deliberately sabotaging production...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...bills, a $254,000 payroll was due in two weeks, $46,000,000 worth of bonds had been in default since 1922-and there was only $103,000 in the bank. He had to sell some of his battered boxcars for scrap to get enough cash to repair his rotten rails. But he got every discouraged M. & St. L. employe to help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their own goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over 300 new industries...
...have lived and we are living in a rotten world. . . . Only by handling the old structure roughly, only by conquering our inertia, only by daring to venture on new ways, can we hope to see a better...
...texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw rotten eggs, refuse. Says Parker reminiscently: "They had a lot of vitality mixed up with their...