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Wisconsin's young Senator La Follette blazed away like his father in this fight:† "We are filling the jury box that will decide the issue between organized greed and the rights of the masses. . . . Aggregations of capital threaten to wipe out the great middle class in this country...
...Goldman, Sachs underwrote this issue, and since Eitingon Schild's trouble was just that of Shenandoah, decline in inventories, it is an easy guess as to whence came the idea that Eitingon Schild officials turn in about $2,000,000 worth of preferred and common stock, enough to wipe out the expected deficit and provide for dividend payments...
Through the lowering clouds of scurrilous criticism which have hung over Bawdy Boston for so long, there gleams at last a ray of hope that she may again cleanse her fair name and wipe the muck from her escutcheon. Under the guidance of her sturdy constabulary a reform is now in progress so startling and courageous in its nature that only the merest guess can be ventured as to the far reaching consequences which may eventually be involved...
...Wipe their noses," he ordered, "spray their eyes with boric acid solution, and send them in to me one at a time. Boric acid solution, you understand...
...points out, that schools of this type constitute a very small number of all the private schools of the country. Yet even though the schools which contribute little are at best harmless in their effect upon public education, there is reason to doubt that we shall ever want to wipe them out. American democracy seems to have established it as a fundamental principle that the rights of any minority shall be respected so long as the exercise of these rights does not do serious and demonstrable harm to the interests of the majority