Steffens, I think, would know how to deal with an accusation of bias. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Walter Pincus of the Post: Our Neutered Newsrooms are a Poor Example to the Rest of the World] Reference
"But we can't abdicate our commitment to honest reform," Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Hudson: Good Night, and Good Ratings] Reference
Lincoln Steffens, among the most famous of muckrakers, declared that big. From Wordnik.com. [The Commanding Heights] Reference
To which Steffens responded, "I shall stay here till you are driven out.". From Wordnik.com. [Len Levitt: The Demise of The Shack] Reference
Steffens started the flame that awards like the George K. Polk keep alive. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Walter Pincus of the Post: Our Neutered Newsrooms are a Poor Example to the Rest of the World] Reference
Steffens confessed that he had "compromised" with his colleagues "to keep my job.". From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Mogul] Reference
Introduced to Steffens, Williams airily announced, "We'll see how long he stays here.". From Wordnik.com. [Len Levitt: The Demise of The Shack] Reference
Steffens was exposing the seamy side of municipal affairs in "The Shame of the Cities.". From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
PIERPONT MORGAN, THE MAN whom Lincoln Steffens called “the boss of the United States.”. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
"I inspected the site this morning and there was not a sign of anyone attempting to get to it," Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Like Steffens, Lippmann supported Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party in the 1912 presidential elections. From Wordnik.com. [Lippmann: 'Brains are suspect in the Republican Party'] Reference
What Steffens meant was that a people confident in righteousness need occasionally to be reminded of their fallibility. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich's "Washington Rules" and John Dower's "Cultures of War"] Reference
It turns out that Steffens regretted writing the piece because he had been pressured by his editors to take a hatchet to Hearst. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Mogul] Reference
In 1798, Steffens, a young Dane brimful of enthusiastic admiration for German learning, arrived in the course of his travels at Jena. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Alphin was charged with impeding traffic, Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A red fox and a lynx were also part of the move, Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
No. 3; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl. LXI; Steffens², pl. 37. 15. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
Steffens said more cuts will come from non-union positions as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
"I was so impressed with the response of the community," Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
Graves was on fire when he jumped out of the tanker cab, Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Steffens seems to think they're both about the same; but he's all wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon] Reference
Steffens herself was the subject of one of the earlier rounds of downsizing. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
The tanker didn't overturn but the impact pierced the fuel tank, Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Steffens said two tigers remain at the zoo that closed to the public in September. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
Steffens, the Norwegian philosopher, to try his hand at purely literary productions. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
Steffens means well but, like all reformers, he don't know how to make distinctions. From Wordnik.com. [Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon] Reference
Steffens, Lincoln, on the wealthy business man as a corruptor of municipal politics, 289. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
Graves was traveling north, driving a tanker truck filled with swine blood, Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"The foxes are getting along just great; they sleep in the den box together," Steffens said. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
Steffens, of Indiana; daughter and son-in-law, Debbie and Todd Adams, of Boaz; grandchildren. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Mountain Reporter: News] Reference
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