Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Illinois, primary slush oozed over the $1,000,000 mark, finally stopped dripping- chiefly because Voltaire-tongued Investigator-Senator James A. Reed had left for his Kansas City home, not to do any more prodding until October. Ten days in a Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay...
...devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean dynamo broke from obscurity, captured...
...Nice Turk. Last spring P. E. Bishop Manning of New York and many another bishop became indignant with memories of the "Unspeakable Turk" and his Armenian and Greek massacres. Some $80,000,000 in missionary investments had become futile; Christianity could not be taught in Turkey. They asked Senator Borah to oppose the U. S. signing the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. He refused (TIME, April...
...that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named Renner. . . . Children quoted out of copybooks a statement they are taught to believe was first addressed to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam...
...Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely a grandfather, went on living, acting. On Feb. 15, 1850, a man-child was born in Carmichaels, Pa. Waynesburg College taught him law, Iowa made him an insurgent Republican and thrice elected him governor. In 1908 when the "Iowa idea" for flexible tariff legislation was rampant, Albert B. Cummins strode into the U. S. Senate along with many another radical. This Senator from Iowa was no radical at heart, no Smith...