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Owen fought back, mocking the pseudo-religiosity of Chandler by using the Hebrew translation of the name Adoniram and referring to him as, "The high Lord Chandler."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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"Jane, get some of the blackberry jam, and call Adoniram and the children."
Prue and I George William Curtis 1858
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Working Men's Party leaders such as Adoniram Chandler and Simon Clannon; Loco Focos such as Paulus Hedl; and trade union carpenters such as William Robertson. 42 The pro-BUS position centered primarily around the notion that whatever their apprehensions about the power of the BUS, Andrew Jackson's plan to remove the national bank's ability to regulate the economy posed more of a danger to working men's households. 43
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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"Adoniram," exclaimed Mrs. Fisher across the table, for the first time in her life looking as if she would like to step on his toes.
Five Little Peppers Grown Up Margaret Sidney 1884
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Unlike Adoniram Chandler's assault, the anonymous pamphlet declared its lack of interest in Owen's and Fanny Wright's religious lives; rather, it was a blistering personal attack on Owen's own masculinity and model of fatherhood.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Active temperance and Christian morality advocates including Guyon, Adoniram Chandler, and Joseph Hoxie also assumed leadership positions in the Cook faction. 10
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Conflicts over union benefits reached a fevered pitch within the Typographical Society in the late 1810s as Adoniram Chandler, elected president in 1815, moved debate on whether or not to maintain the organization in its original form as a part trade union/part benefit society.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Adoniram Chandler most likely used the meeting to ambush Owen, whom he intensely disliked and labeled as less than a real man, "hanging to the skirts of a deluded woman."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Adoniram Chandler to Washington to present a petition pleading their case to the House of Representative and President Jackson.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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During the discussion of what was to be done with the prints, Adoniram Chandler, an evangelical temperance advocate and leader of the Cook faction, stood up and read some controversial excerpts from Richard Carlile's Every Woman's Book, or, What is Love?
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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