A Study of Muck-raking in Four Popular MagazinesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1921 |
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... operations of the " system : I shall go further and say that there exists today un- controlled in the hands of a set of men a power to make dollars from nothing . Today " Standard Oil , " the " Private Thing , " is the greatest power in ...
... operations of the " system : I shall go further and say that there exists today un- controlled in the hands of a set of men a power to make dollars from nothing . Today " Standard Oil , " the " Private Thing , " is the greatest power in ...
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... operations , so full of dollars that , neither they nor their children , nor their children's children , could count them as the people count the ir savings a dollar at a time -- as thoughtlessly taken as are the apples that the school ...
... operations , so full of dollars that , neither they nor their children , nor their children's children , could count them as the people count the ir savings a dollar at a time -- as thoughtlessly taken as are the apples that the school ...
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... operation in the United States during the last twenty years , double - dealing , sharp practice , and jobbery have en- tered ; and what is more , the men interested have participa- ted in and profited thereby . To correct a popular ...
... operation in the United States during the last twenty years , double - dealing , sharp practice , and jobbery have en- tered ; and what is more , the men interested have participa- ted in and profited thereby . To correct a popular ...
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... operations of the " System . " In May of that year , Mr. Lawson published an article called " Fools and Their Money " in which he explained why he was delaying the publication of his Remedy . He felt that the peo- ple were not ready to ...
... operations of the " System . " In May of that year , Mr. Lawson published an article called " Fools and Their Money " in which he explained why he was delaying the publication of his Remedy . He felt that the peo- ple were not ready to ...
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... operations in the cattle markets and upon the vast cattle in- dustry of the West . He shows how the destruction of competi- tive buying impoverished farmers , ruined cattle - raisers , drove banks into liquidation , and men to suicide ...
... operations in the cattle markets and upon the vast cattle in- dustry of the West . He shows how the destruction of competi- tive buying impoverished farmers , ruined cattle - raisers , drove banks into liquidation , and men to suicide ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.