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Coxey
[ kok-see ]
noun
- Jacob Sech·ler [sech, -ler], 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers Coxey'sarmy in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
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And it would be so small a part of Coxey's army that the main body would march on and never miss it.
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Mother Meadows wished "that man Coxey had never been born," so weary did she get of the Coxey song.
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In a few days the soldiers came back escorting the Coxey prisoners.
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Coxey happened to swallow one, and said he wouldn't lie down for a week for fear of puncturing himself.
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Coxey brayed to the men to "get a move on," but Skates and I amused ourselves by sucking icicles hanging from our bangs.
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