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Help from ICC? Just how he was going to assert .his claimed control of the New York Central he did not know-at the moment. But Young intended to get his men on the Central's board somehow...
...dynamic of Democracy is toward more & more safeguarding of the rights of individual men. The dynamic of Socialism leads inevitably toward arrogation of more & more power by the State, which must in the end assert its power by force against the mass of men who prefer to remain free. When he emphasized this simple fact (TIME, July 18, 1945), Conservative Leader Winston Churchill was simply a better Leninist than Socialist Leader Clement Attlee...
These bills do not nationalize urban or rural land outright. But they finally and firmly assert prior Government interest in all land and its uses, and subordinate all private interest to the Government. Silkin's bill revolutionizes the whole basis of tenure and use of British land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present...
...friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant on the spot. They particularly liked the name of the Baptist elder-"Messa," the Italian word for Mass...
Smarting over since his defeat on the Charles to the strokes of the 'Cliffe crewmen, the Harvard Male has been thirsting to assert his traditional superiority . . . in something. Yesterday an intrepid group of Bellboys shouldered the responsibility for vindicating College honor, and engaged a formidable aggregation of Amazonian field-hockeyers on the Browne and Nichols gridiron, with scattered support from Wellesley and some finishing school ringers...