Word: tool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
Meanwhile the wrath of Manufacturer George D. Haskell (Bausch Machine & Tool Co.) of Springfield, Mass., has grown mighty. Years ago he decided that the Aluminum Co. of America was monopolizing a highly profitable business. So, with the intention of intruding and at the expense of much time, pains and money, he learned that the Aluminum Co. controlled the great U. S. deposits of bauxite, the commercial ore from which aluminum is extracted. These deposits are in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas. The Aluminum Co. also controls the great bauxite deposits of British and Dutch Guiana, and buys up much...
...accuracy to the person described by them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have a libel suit on your hands. You have to prove that he is, as the case may be, "an itchy old toad," "a tool of profiteers," "a damaged-goods chap." Following is a glossary, compiled last week by Editor and Publisher, of words and phrases each one of which has figured in a libel action won by the plaintiff...
Packing a jury ; pseudo scientist ; rascal ; rogue ; scoundrel ; slacker ; suicide fiend ; syphilis ; thief ; tool of profiteers ; unfit to be trusted with money ; and villain...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...