Word: tradesmen
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...from the foreign field in the interests of our hard-pressed rivals overseas 'who need trade more than we do.' Perhaps for the purposes of identification we might decorate those noble-hearted altruists with the Grand Order of the Yellow Streak, while the rest of our more brazenly acquisitive tradesmen, with a full recognition of the gravity of the situation, turn to a consideration of the facts, not of the phantoms...
...later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...stroke the earnings of 60% of the nation, Il Duce believes that he can force the sellers of manufactured goods and foodstuffs to cut their prices drastically, thus hammering down the cost of living to the lowered level of wages. Thus far, in the opinion of the Dictator, profiteering tradesmen have not cut their retail prices nearly enough to bring these into line with the staggering decline in wholesale raw product prices throughout the world...
...purchased for $65,000 a great white stucco house with a nile-green tiled roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife Mae, his brothers Ralph ("Bottles") and Matthew, tried desperately to live the life of a retired gentleman...
...every corner of the world. A great deal of his time has been spent, incidentally, in forming a typical New England village right in Dearborn, Michigan. Here, there will be no automobiles allowed; visitors will be transported in carriages; and it will be possible to see typical New England tradesmen at work at all professions...