Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larry--And what about your food? Is it rotten? Do you dribble it out? This is fundamental, Paymore, and I warn you, any improvement in quality or increase in quantity will constitute unfair competition, and will terminate your privileges in the club...
Following this reaction, the year 1924 in Russia was economically and politically rotten. The country went from bad to worse. Cooperative trading between town and village broke down; industrial unrest assumed alarming proportions at Leningrad and Moscow; the peasants stuck more closely than ever to their hoarded grain; the capitalists, such few as there were, were hounded into inactivity. On top of this, came heavy frost in the autumn before the first snowfall, with incalculable damage to the sown grain. Abroad, Communism saw an intractable U. S., a change of Government in Britain, that could hardly be looked upon...
...thought, when I ordered this periodical, that I was obtaining something away from this rotten propaganda that is swamping the mails, but I notice a cut of Rockefeller, and a sweet eulogy of this saint that would make a dog sick (in your last issue). If I were to write what I think about that sweeted-scented bunch of Standard Oil mob, I would do time for mailing profanity through the U. S. Mails...
With the aid of the Lieutenant Governor, Felix Toupin, a fiery little man of French descent who presided over the Senate, the Democrats began a filibuster a year ago to compel the Republicans to agree to a Constitutional Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said...
...returning my copy of TIME, issue of Nov. 10, 1924, and I wish you would send me another one. You will find on examination that it is a rotten piece of printing and not fit to file away with the others I have...