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warmonger(dictionary)
Moore, Ely(encyclopedia)
Moore, Henry(encyclopedia)
Moore's method(medicine)
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Moore, Brian(encyclopedia)
Moore, Archie(encyclopedia)
Moore, Thomas(encyclopedia)
Moore, Charles(medicine)

Moore, Ely (sh) and warmonger (iou)


Moore, Ely (sh)




born July 4, 1798, near Belvidere, N.J., U.S.
died Jan. 27, 1860, Lecompton, Kansas Territory

U.S. publisher.

A printer and newspaper editor, he was elected the first president of New York's federation of craft unions (1833). The following year he was elected chairman of the National Trades Union, which joined with Tammany Hall to elect him to the U.S. House of Representatives. In the House he helped generate support for the 10-hour workday. When his second term expired in 1839, he became surveyor of the port of New York and then editor of the Warren Journal in New Jersey.


warmonger (iou)



warmonger noun. L16.
[from WAR noun1 + MONGER noun.]
A mercenary soldier. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
A person who seeks to bring about or promote war. E19.
warmongering noun & adjective (the action of) seeking to bring about war M20.