Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchants and Middlemen of the Middle Ages", A. P. Usher, Widener...
...that American banking interests "as good Americans . . . give thought to the matters at stake when they are called upon for foreign loans." "Selfish Bankers." Dr. Herty, his wrath mounting at contemplation of this "foreign menace to U. S. peace and prosperity," asked the chemical salesmen: "Are our bankers simply middlemen or brokers whose only thought is the commission they want. . . ?" He instanced this financiering as an example of how U. S. foreign loans strengthen the arms of those he contends are ready to strike the U. S.: "It is reported throughout the European press that the German cartel...
...miners retort that lignite delivered in Berlin for $5.20 a ton retails for $9 a ton, which they claimed is too great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...
Jews. The Chosen People have typically the reputation of amassing wealth by other means than tilling the soil. Under the Tsars Jews were practically debarred from landholding and forced into the occupations of middlemen and money lenders. Under the Soviets, land has been placed freely at the disposal of Jews, while at the same time communal distribution of pro duce has ruined them as middle men. Result: Russian Jews are leaving the cities in large numbers, migrating to take up farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been...
Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...