Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Elder then interpreted the question. By ownership is meant absolute ownership; but if the city should own the street railways, it could operate them itself or lease them. In either case, the affirmative will try to prove municipal ownership desirable. The question is one of practical benefit, not of legal possibility. Legal difficulties such as the debt limit, can easily be adjusted if public ownership appears beneficial...
...more efficient service, and although he was clothed with all the police powers of the city, he could accomplish almost nothing. All attempts at regulation have failed. The reason is manifest. Most of the franchises, owned by the street railway companies, are almost unconditional and practically perpetual. The only legal means by which the city can secure adequate control is to buy back the franchises. This means municipal ownership...
...today, owing to the continual industrial revolutions, the wealth-producing machine has grown complex and often the trade of a district and sometimes of many states is influenced by the will of a small body of men, who are perhaps far off and over whom there is no legal control...
...legal title to the property of the Harvard Union shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, seven in number, to be appointed by the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...appointments of officers of instruction and government, and of standing committees; awards of fellowships, scholarships, and prizes; reports, of bequests, gifts, and other accessions to the resources of the University; and all acts and measures which it may be expedient to promulgate officially in order to give them full legal effect, such as amendments of, or additions to, the laws of the University, the offering of courses of instruction not announced in the University Catalogue, changes in tuition fees and laboratory fees. In addition the Gazette will contain monthly reports of titles of publications actually issued by teachers and students...