Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quietly to Brooklyn last week. There he completed a dicker terminating negotiations which have dragged on two years and more, realizing an ambition of many years. He took control of the distinguished old Daily Eagle, which during all the 87 years of its existence had been under the continuous ownership of a family group. _ Two upstate publishers thus became rivals in the huge, various New York City newspaper field. For only last August, another chain-paper man, Paul Block, bought the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Block began his newspaper career in Elmira, N. Y., and was publishing papers in Newark, Toledo...
...private owners of some public utility, the suppliers of gas, bringers of electric light, should want their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
...that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered by the Buddhist clergy. That state of things lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces of the amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious...
...maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill" (see above) and mentioned two specific things for which Costa Rica may be admired-wide distribution of land and home ownership, and four times as many schoolteachers as soldiers...
Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, both outspokenly Wet, under the same ownership, supported Hoover and Smith, respectively. But the Chicago Tribune sensationally denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon League as "twin calamities" in the Hoover campaign...