Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cliveden Set...
...fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up for the benefit of local monopolies. (Arnold cites the fact that the plumbing in the magnificent $10,000,000 Department of Justice building is arbitrarily ruled not good enough for private homes in some cities...
...years, high brow, jutting nose, pince-nez and white-piped vests make him the picture of statesmanship, but not the mouthpiece. Last week some newsmen feared a Democratic victory in Philadelphia might remove Mr. Pommer from his post and their ken. Against that untoward hap, they set about collecting his legendary sayings...
Last week the air was filled with straws in the political wind, blowing in all directions. Gusty or strong, or just an off-year breeze, the wind ebbed and eddied over Ohio, California, the cities of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Although local crosscurrents were set up, the general direction was Right, the temperature generally warmer...
...Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with power to issue money, or that this money would be accepted by the State in payment of debt and taxes. What alarmed Mr. Pegler was that the story of Ham & Eggs could not be told "without a sense of shame and fear," and that...