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Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.

Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.

Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial

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Francis W. Bourdillon
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Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Isaac H. Bromley (1833- ——): Editorial in the "New York Tribune," Feb. 16, 1877.

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