Assassin Quotes
She was referring to the high percentage of Rockefeller workers who were killed in industrial accidents with little or no management concern for workplace safety. In addition, she accused Rockefeller (and other very rich employers) of paying such low wages that full time workers lived in abject poverty and suffering the short lifespan that went with poverty then (and even today, but less so.)
In the closest call to murder in the Senate, Stuart Foote of Mississippi drew a pistol and aimed it at Benton in the heat of a debate:. Foote reconsidered and was overpowered on the Senate floor and was disarmed. There was no disciplinary action taken however. During slavery debates guns in the Congress were so common that Vice President Martin Van Buren once presided over the Senate for two weeks with a loaded pistol in each pocket.
In order to convince the States to outlaw weed, Anslinger started a campaign to associate marijuana with insanity, murder, violence, sex and sex crimes. This type of statement made by otherwise respectable government officials has developed a view on the part of many Americans that the Government lies about marijuana. See {617560}, {593333}, and {593334}.
