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It was the nearest approach to a working-man's paradise that Jimmie had ever encountered. There was really only one drawback the pestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round. They were for ever hauling you up and threatening and questioning you putting you through the same scene over and over.
Upton Sinclair - Jimmie Higgins

A number had been drafted which Meissner considered deliberate conspiracy on the part of the draft-boards. Who had been taken? Jimmie asked. The other answered: Comrade Claudel, the jeweller he wanted to go, of course; and Comrade Koeln, the glass-blower he was a German, but had been naturalized, so they had taken him, in spite of his protests; and Comrade Stankewitz
Upton Sinclair - Jimmie Higgins
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