Reform and accountability call as reconstruction funds ride
A critical speech denounces the Slocum and Titanic disasters, unsafe workplaces, and graft in reconstruction aid. It laments veterans left unpaid, bankers favored, and violence avoided only by the ballot, urging leaders to redirect billions to those in need and curb profiteering.
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England
Stomwell
Mirabeau
Desmouling
Danton
Robespierre
Lori Northcliffe
Laura
Royal
Fontainableau
Loula
Editorial echoes Hearst call to protect the powerful
Seventeen years after a full page editorial, a telegram from W. R. Hearst is republished with the line This is a government for the protection of the powerful and the exploitation of the weak. The piece contrasts a poor man jailed for five dollars with a rich man yachts after stealing ten million, and notes veterans' bonuses and jobs remain unresolved while funds flow to big corporations for reconstruction. The piece warns of an impending change if current approvals continue.
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Washington
Reclos
Esquimaux
Wall Street
W. R. Hearst
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Arly
Slocum
Maz
New York
Vannie" Higgins
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Banke
William Randolph Hearst
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