Word: pul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being an address that said something. It was a relief from the meaningless mouthings to which prominent men have treated the American public lately. The modern demagogue would have ranted endlessly about freedom of the press being a "glorious ideal cemented in the hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...
Meantime the metropolitan newspapers went for the city administration hammer- &tongs. Mindful of the crusading tradition inherited with its recent purchase of the World, the World-Telegram editorialized, in language less elegant, less thunderous but no less clear than Joseph Pul-itzer's writers used to use: ''Soon the idea may get across to Tammany. Soon Tammany may wake up and realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News...
...those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid Pul $1,940,000 to go away peacefully. Menahem got the money by exacting $32.30 from each of "all the mighty men of wealth" in Israel. But shortly after, Shalmaneser, Pul's successor, descended upon...