Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheltered its classes. General G. B. Fisk then Head of the Freedman's Bureau for Tennessee and adjoining States, took a lively interest in the founding; his friends named the school for him. In 1869, the American Missionary Association (sustained by Congregational churches in the North) took over the ownership-and administration, is still in control. The charter as a university was issued...
...Bryan is not an advocate of Government ownership. Says he: "I am not in favor of Federal, State or Municipal ownership of anything except natural resources, such as water; but when business combinations, particularly utilities and those supplying vitally necessary products, defy all authority and endeavor to mulct the public, then I think that the Government should sternly repress them, using whatever means may be most efficient...
...brought a staid Boston publication to a circulation almost unbelievably large for that type of magazine.* Under his eye "The Atlantic Monthly Press" was born and is starting to flourish. The Living Age, now published from his offices, prospers. The Independent, in which he has no actual ownership, under a new group of owners and editors has moved to Massachusetts and is now making its home in the Atlantic offices under Mr. Sedgwick's benignant glances. He is one of our greatest American editors, yet I believe the public knows little about him, and that is his desire...
...Repeal of the Cummins-Esch law. Public ownership of railroads, with democratic operation with definite safeguards against bureaucratic control...
...State of Georgia has neither the right nor the power to give to Congress the power to limit, regulate or prohibit the labor of Georgians under 18 years of age, or of any age, because such power reestablishes in America a system of slavery with public ownership substituted for private ownership, and would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington...