Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loyalty and goes into the market place to buy. There are merchants here; hawkers, who pluck him by the arm and bawl into his ears; others who are quietly content, confident that the attractiveness of their wares will sell them to all who see and are worthy of ownership...
...give them the control of the Scheldt and free the port of Antwerp from the fear of any interference in case of war. They have suggested that we take a part of Germany in compensation, but the Dutch do not desire that way. The only case in which our ownership of these provinces, which we have owned ever since Holland had a separate existence, could embarrass Belgium is in case of war between the two countries, which is unthinkable. We rely on the good sense of both sides for an eventual settlement. We expect no trouble...
Statistics: Population and income, production, home ownership, schools-the percentages and relative percentages of increases were aptly recited, climaxing in "6,000,000 more telephones, 7,000,000 radio sets, and the service of an additional 14,000,000 automobiles...
Bored, he traveled abroad. In England he studied oratory, and municipal ownership. In Russia he communed with Tolstoy, and also lectured the handsome young Tsar on free speech. In Japan he took a bath which fascinated a large audience. In six countries he observed government ownership of railroads-another unpopular cause which he promptly championed upon his return to America...
...with trouble. His first struggle secured government rather than banker control of the Federal Reserve. Then, as Prince of Peace, he effected anti-war pacts with 30 nations, but his Tolstoian principles were put severely to the test by the Mexican situation, by the California-Japan dispute over property ownership, and finally by the Great War. His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other...