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1  In other words, in the union Jurgis learned to talk politics.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  He was introduced by his friend to an Irishman named "Buck" Halloran, who was a political "worker" and on the inside of things.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
3  So Jurgis went out to the stockyards again, and was introduced to the political lord of the district, the boss of Chicago's mayor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
4  Grandmother Majauszkiene knew that because her son belonged to a political organization with a contractor who put up exactly such houses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
6  It was worth a fortune to the packers to keep their blacklist effective, as a warning to the men and a means of keeping down union agitation and political discontent.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
7  These discussed the political situation from every point of view, and all that troubled Jurgis was the impossibility of carrying off but a small part of the treasures they offered him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
8  He had had more of his share of the fight, though, for just when Socialism had broken all its barriers and become the great political force of the empire, he had come to America, and begun all over again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
9  And then, explained Schliemann, society would break up into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial persons; examples of which at present were clubs, churches, and political parties.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
10  The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
11  So he started away again, when suddenly he chanced to look about him, and found that he was walking down the same street and past the same hall where he had listened to the political speech the night before.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
12  The saloon-keeper stood in with all the big politics men in the district; and when you had once found out what it meant to get into trouble with such people, you would know enough to pay what you were told to pay and shut up.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
13  There was a door above and another below, both safely padlocked, making the stairs an admirable place to stow away a customer who might still chance to have money, or a political light whom it was not advisable to kick out of doors.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
14  Those which had been held in Chicago so far had proven most dismal failures, and tonight, the speaker being no less a personage than a candidate for the vice-presidency of the nation, the political managers had been trembling with anxiety.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27
15  So he told her the long story of his adventures since his flight from home; his life as a tramp, and his work in the freight tunnels, and the accident; and then of Jack Duane, and of his political career in the stockyards, and his downfall and subsequent failures.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
16  They were behind with their rent all the time, but the company was good to them; there was some politics back of that, Grandmother Majauszkiene could not say just what, but the Laffertys had belonged to the "War Whoop League," which was a sort of political club of all the thugs and rowdies in the district; and if you belonged to that, you could never be arrested for anything.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
17  They were behind with their rent all the time, but the company was good to them; there was some politics back of that, Grandmother Majauszkiene could not say just what, but the Laffertys had belonged to the "War Whoop League," which was a sort of political club of all the thugs and rowdies in the district; and if you belonged to that, you could never be arrested for anything.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
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