Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan will surely not suffer in prestige by the falling off in the number of its freshmen, but in these days when most colleges are fairly swamped with applications, it is rather remarkable that one of the largest should experience a sudden decline. If the question of automobile ownership is to be credited with such an influence, it comes as a surprising commentary upon the undergraduate attitude and it might be agreed that President Little was fortunate in escaping responsibility for the education of two hundred young men who judge his university in terms of its automobiles...
...presentable for the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval, the Pennsylvania remained remarkably quiet. Last week, through its Baltimore Sun agent, it demanded: " 1) A line paralleling the N. Y. C. along the Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
Naturally the opposite view was taken by Bolivian officials at La Paz, where Minister of Public Works Zacarias Benavides solemnly declared "Communists are responsible for this outbreak. They have incited the Indians to establish the supremacy of their race and obtain the ownership of all land...
Employe stock ownership, voluntary compensation for injuries, "safety first", employe welfare-in the form of schools, playgrounds, clubs, gardens, pensions - and abolition of the twelve-hour day were policies embraced by Judge Gary before others forced them upon him. He read the times aright, saw that industry would be humanized and might better prosper by humanizing itself. In 1918 Judge Gary refused to receive Samuel Gompers resenting labor's attempt to unionize the steel industry for ends which the steel industry already had in view. A strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good...
...Andrew's, Scotland, to defend his British open championship. When Mr. Jones was reported as having ticked off a practice round in 68, Atlanta's mind was easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders...