Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Municipal ownership is not practical at present, said Mayor Hibbard, and it never will be until it can be entirely freed from politics. In Boston it has particularly been a failure because of its corruption. A good example is the Municipal Printing Plant of the city, which has been a sort of bank for politicians and their constituents during the last few years. This year, however, it has been placed on a firm basis, with a practical man at its head, and it will be given two years' fair trial to show whether or not municipal ownership is a success...
...ownership of the copyright of successful studies will rest in the donors, and it is expected that, without precluding the use of these papers as theses for higher degrees, they will cause them to be issued in some permanent form...
There has recently forced its way to the front in Civic politics, the issue generally known as Municipal Ownership. The principle involved is not new as we have long owned and operated a variety of public utilities such as water supply; it is the proposed extension of the principle upon a scale of portentous magnitude that gives the issue its engrossing interest. The proposition is in itself characteristic of the age, for whether it be regarded as a real factor in the progress of civilization or only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit...
...Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics," by F. L. Knowles '96; "Ancient Athens," by H. C. Lea h.'90; "Sapho and Phaon," by P. W. MacKaye '97; "From Sail to Steam," "Some Neglected Aspects of War," by A. T. Mahan h.'95; "British State Telegraphy, and Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain," by H. G. Meyer '92; "Elements of Psychology," by E. L. Thorndike '96; "Days Off," by H. Van Dyke h.'94; "A History of Architecture," by R. Sturgis '78; "The France of Today," by B. Wendell '77; "Foods and Their Adulteration," by H. W. Wiley...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Municipal Ownership of Telephones in Great Britain." Mr. A.N. Holcombe. University...