Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resources, coal, oil and rubber. Even methods of obtaining better postmasters were exhaustively considered. The convention expressed itself as favoring a World Court, an economic conference to settle European affairs and a slight relaxation of present immigration restrictions by the addition of a selected 2%. It sharply opposed government ownership in all its phases, and with regard to government regulation of business, where such a course was justifiable at all, expressed a preference for Federal over State or local jurisdiction. The Chamber urged that a transportation system in the United States, commensurate with the country's needs, be developed...
President Lowell in considering "Harvard Traditions" briefly summarized the founding and development of the college, how it was established by the state and maintained by the state for many years before it came under private ownership and finally outlined the growth of the institution during the nineteenth century...
...railways themselves, who want to continue operation under the Esch-Cummins Law of 1920. On another hand are farmers and shippers in general, clamoring for lower freight rates. From still another quarter the railroad workers are prepared to demand any arrangement to the advantage of the workers-government ownership, if practical. Then there is the public- mutely desirous of the best possible service; the La Follette-Brookhart radical group in Congress-prepared to push attempts for drastic changes...
...Biloxi, Miss., the United States Marshal was ordered by a writ of sequestration to "seize and bring into court" a 75 ton dead whale, as to the ownership of which there was a legal contest...
Barnum's first fortune, acquired between 1841 and 1851, began with his ownership of the American Museum, reached its climax when he imported Jenny Lind, disappeared with a clock company...