Word: tool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the red flag of "big money" and then feeds them Soviet propaganda, is Gompers justified in playing upon the very same prejudice to rouse these masses against "bloody Moscow"? Big business, charges the President of the American Federation of Labor, has been using Mr. Hearst as a willing tool to reopen relations with Russia...
Robert S. Alter, of the American Tool Works, Cincinnati, was careful to add that every dollar's worth of trade would be backed by Russian gold...
...first and last President of the Hungarian People's Republic. At this time Hungary was at war with the Allies. Karolyi either surrounded himself, or, more probably was surrounded, by a group of disreputable Hungarians and Jews. It appears that his best defense is that he was the tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning...
...dishonorable plot to force war on the world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets out to do, but actually damns the Germans from out of their own mouths. It has been fashionable to excuse the ex-Kaiser?as he excused himself in his Memoirs?for being the tool in the hands of ambitious soldiers, statesmen and industrial magnates. Despite this book from the perspicuous pen of M. Viviani, it is possible that the Old Man of Doom is not quite as bad as he is depicted. Be that as it may, there is no shadow of a single...
That in itself is no great matter, but it is an almost insurmountable obstacle to his possible candidacy in 1924. Now if he steps into the political limelight, the cry of his enemies will ring out: " Behold the Tool of the Sugar Trust! Lo, the Enemy of the American Breakfast Table...