Word: congress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resort to wars to secure the privileges of combination.- (ii) Strong companies resort to war to prevent honest competition.- (d) Legalized pooling would be a special danger.- (i) The anomalous combination of corporations which could be brought together by legalized pooling would have more power over commerce than the Congress of the United States.- (ii) From this unrestrained control of business interests dangerous abuses would spring.- (e) It took a railroad pool to perpetrate the Standard Oil Monopoly.- (f) Why should not permanent pooling combinations maintain in the same way discrimination over any and every important industry...
GREETING:- In view of the fact that hundreds of graduates and undergraduates, who are members of the different college fraternities will visit Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition, it has been decided by the local members, to arrange for a grand Pan-Hellenic Congress and Greek Letter Day at the Exposition...
About the general programme, the following features of attractions have been agreed upon: In the morning from 10 to 1 o'clock will be the congress in the auditorium at the exposition grounds; speeches will be delivered by some of our most eloquent orators, and papers will be read by those who have given special study to fraternity issues and the general subject of Pan-Hellenism; in the afternoon from 3 o'clock to 5 there will be a great football game between the two leading teams of the South at that time; in the evening from...
...ever been in the Wild West can not but enjoy every minute of the time spent in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The horse racing of Cowboys, Mexicans, Arabs, Gauchos, Indians, etc., the sharpshooting of Miss Oakley and Johnny Baker, the exhibition of lassoing by the Mexicans, are but few of numerous exciting and absorbing features. The crowning feature, however, is the sharpshooting, at full speed, of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill...
...offered the Democratic nomination for Congress in his district in 1884, but he declined it; but at the close of his term in the Senate in '86 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, and he came nearer an election than any other Democratic candidate for years. He declined a renomination for governor in '87, but the next year he became a candidate for Congress from the third district and was elected. He was reelected...