Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined them later. The I. W. W. took great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright...
...ballads or sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at length, the real digest of the news is broadcast in single words and short phrases. Thus Col. Lindbergh's exploit of last spring has become included in all its glory in the monosyllable...
...Defense Committee was organized in 1920, at the time of the original arrests, by personal friends of the accused; the Citizens' Committee was founded much later, among intellectual liberals. After their seven-year fight the friends now professed to be "filled with sincere resentment at every attempt to exploit the Sacco-Vanzetti case for selfish political purposes, for personal vanity, for purposes of providing jobs or for any other ulterior purpose...
...expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
...have been injured and reflections cast upon him unjustly. Such statements as may have reflected upon Mr. Sapiro's honor or integrity, impugned his motives or challenged the propriety of his personal professional actions are withdrawn. Likewise the charge that there was a Jewish ring which sought to exploit the American farmer through co-operative associations is withdrawn...