Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's ex-Alderman Fairchild let go his red herring. "Democracy," as he is well aware, is that ideal government defined by Lincoln as "of the people, by the people, for the people." By "the democracies" TIME, in common with the rest of the world's press, refers to the U. S., England and France - the democratic countries which are of No. 1 military importance...
...eyes of concern was many a non-Catholic libertarian and democrat the world over. For the first time since the 18th Century's Enlightenment, believers in individual liberty found themselves taking the same side as the Roman Catholic Church, the champion of the individual soul-and facing a common enemy. So, while the Cardinals elected a Pope, the whole world watched...
Hearst Consolidated and almost everything else Hearst owns are controlled by American Newspapers Inc., top holding company of the bewildering Hearst corporate hierarchy. Mr. Hearst owns 95% of its common stock, but Judge Shearn is his sole voting trustee. As trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors...
...seven and a half years the preferred stockholders got their 7% and Hearst got a great deal more. He got over $12,000,000 in common stock dividends. Publicly-owned Hearst Consolidated newspapers paid $2,000,000 a year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers...
...cannot indict a whole people, but unless you do you cannot start a war against them. For the common people on both sides in the World War, that lesson seemed bitterly evident for all time. Today it is apparently being forgotten all over again. Few men-in-the-street nowadays make much distinction between Hitler and the German people. For the majority, all Germans are 100% Nazi goosesteppers...