Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...night Buell's forces arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...
...battle of Bunker Hill an "absurd blunder" from the American point of view...
...Conkling, City Govt. in the U. S.; Nation, LVIII, 285 (Apr. 19, 1894); LVI, 449 (June 22, 1893); LX, 102 (Feb. 7, 1895); A. R. Foote, Municipal Ownership of Quasi-Public Works; John Stuart Mill, Political Economy, Book V, ch. 11, 1-6; Bastable, Public Finance, 184 ff; Bryce, American Commonwealth, II, 367-385 (on Philadelphia Gas Ring); A. C. Burrage, Municipal Lighting; Hadley, Railroad Transportation...
...present conditions in American cities are such that municipal ownership and management of street railways would be undesirable.- (a) Those who control municipal politics are not men of good business capacity.- (b)Corruption would be increased.- (1) All employes of street railways would become part of the political machine.- (c) Would increase the already serious problem of municipal indebtedness: Bastable, p. 184.- (d) In large cities municipal lines would clash with suburban lines.- (e) The remedy for present evils lies in additional regulations by the city government: Burrage...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Sinister Purposes of France during the American Revolution. Dr. Justin Winsor. University...