Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacture and sale of liquor, not for private profit or public (saloon) consumption, but under State administration, for home consumption. 2) Farm Relief - Federal assistance in distributing marketing costs over units of any crop in which a price-depressing sur plus occurs. 3) Water Power - Government develop ment, ownership and control of undevel oped sites still in the Government's hands. The Smith proposal was also understood to include Government operation of public power-plants, if necessary, though this tenet had not been stressed in expositions of the main thesis against long leases of public power sites to privateers...
...President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which in the first instance belong to the people them selves, and the operation and ownership of a going business [e.g., railroads]." He defended his Prohibition proposal only by reiterating that it was oldtime Jeffersonian States-rights doctrine. He mocked Nominee Hoover with...
Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
...understanding of political liberty; he has infused his government with human sympathy which transcends even tolerance. His mind is fertilized by the concrete event. The impact of specific problems of government leads him to full inquiry, and freedom from obstinate prepossessions, like Mr. Hoover's passionate fear of government ownership, enables him to go wherever understanding and democratic sympathies may require...
...only two, the opulent Tribune and Hearst's Herald and Examiner.* Cleveland, with more than a million inhabitants, has only one morning newspaper, two evening. The climax of the urge to merge is the city with a complete newspaper monopoly-a morning-evening-Sunday paper under the ownership of one man or corporation. Des Moines, Iowa, has such a newspaper. It is owned by an aggressive young Harvard graduate, John Cowles, and his father. Its morning and evening editions have different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly...