Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire Italian wheat-marketing industry was nationalized by Il Duce as another war emergency measure last week. '"Middlemen have been abolished!" local Fascist Party secretaries told the peasants. "You will now bring your wheat to Government warehouses, and Italian millers will no longer receive wheat from any other source than these Government warehouses...
...sense "Marxist"; on the contrary, it is violently anti-Russian and antiCommunist. But Japan's great mass of humble soldiers and many of their officers are sprung from the Japanese peasant class, the class mercilessly ground down to starvation wages and despair by entrenched Japanese middlemen ; the agglomerations of Capital held by octopus-like "family corporations"; and, lastly, by the amazing Japanese speculator, price-chiseler and profiteer who for sheer ingenious rapacity is in a class by himself...
...literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca. By 1933 Story had acquired such a patina of prestige that it attracted the attention of three smart literary middlemen of Manhattan, Publishers Bennett ("Beans") Cerf and Donald Klopfer of the Modern Library and Random House and Harry Scherman of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...
Paul O'Higgins was a onetime Rivera assistant. He has taken for his theme the Peasant's Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...