A Study of Muck-raking in Four Popular MagazinesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1921 |
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... hundred million of dollars , 30 suicides , and 20 convictions . These almost unbelievable disasters are partly responsible for his desire to inform the public : My motives for writing the Story of Amalgamated are manifold : I have ...
... hundred million of dollars , 30 suicides , and 20 convictions . These almost unbelievable disasters are partly responsible for his desire to inform the public : My motives for writing the Story of Amalgamated are manifold : I have ...
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... hundred times as much as George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , and " Abe " Lincoln together secured for the patriotic labors of their lifetimes . And this fast sum was taken from the people to enrich men whose coffers were already , as ...
... hundred times as much as George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , and " Abe " Lincoln together secured for the patriotic labors of their lifetimes . And this fast sum was taken from the people to enrich men whose coffers were already , as ...
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... hundred men in the great Sacramento valley have come to own over 17,000,000 acres , while in the San Joa- quin valley it is no uncommon thing for one man's name to stand for 100,000 acres . This grabbing of large tracts has discouraged ...
... hundred men in the great Sacramento valley have come to own over 17,000,000 acres , while in the San Joa- quin valley it is no uncommon thing for one man's name to stand for 100,000 acres . This grabbing of large tracts has discouraged ...
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... hundred million real , honest dollars each year . One - third of this sum goes directly to the pockets of thieves of the sort with whom Bowker ( typical victim mentioned elsewhere ) dealt . The other two - thirds is tribute to the os ...
... hundred million real , honest dollars each year . One - third of this sum goes directly to the pockets of thieves of the sort with whom Bowker ( typical victim mentioned elsewhere ) dealt . The other two - thirds is tribute to the os ...
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... hundred different kinds of work at which chil- dren are employed ; and , unhappily , it is into cheap and dan- gerous work that the children always swarm . They are doubled over the coal - breakers , breathing black coal - dust ; they ...
... hundred different kinds of work at which chil- dren are employed ; and , unhappily , it is into cheap and dan- gerous work that the children always swarm . They are doubled over the coal - breakers , breathing black coal - dust ; they ...
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1906 Cosmopolitan Addicks Aldrich Alfred Henry Lewis American Magazine April Armour Baker vol Beef Trust Bucket Shop chapter Chicago corporation corruption COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE crime of Amalgamated criminal deals December describes discussed dollars editor's note Edwin Lefevre election entitled Everybody's Magazine Everybody's vol Everybody's vol.11 evils Express Monopoly facts February fight Finance Lawson Everybody's Flynt Frenzied Finance Lawson graft Henry H Ibid industry instalment interests investigation July June labor land Lincoln Steffens March McClure's Magazine McClure's vol methods millions Miss Tarbell monopoly muck muck-raking muckraking articles Norcross November October organization Owners of America pany Phillips political pool-room profit published railroads Ray Stannard Baker rebates refrigerator car Rockefeller Rogers Roosevelt Russell vol says Senate series of articles shows Sinclair Standard Oil company sugar tariff telephone tell things thousand tion Upton Sinclair vivid votes writer written York
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Page 11 - Capitalists, workingmen, politicians, citizens— all breaking the law or letting it be broken.
Page 11 - Too many of them so respect the laws that for some "error" or quibble they restore to office and liberty men convicted on evidence overwhelmingly convincing to common sense. The churches? We know of one, an ancient and wealthy establishment, which had to be compelled by a Tammany hold-over health officer to put its tenements in sanitary condition. The colleges? They do not understand. [There is no one left; none but all of us.