Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view, it particularly delighted British reviewers by a mixture of sympathy and picturesqueness not unlike that in the novels of Julia Peterkin. In their primitive state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important matters...
...newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...
...Willkie stepped in succession the representatives of 35 Tennessee cities, towns and cooperatives with checks totaling $33,696,795. First was Mayor Thomas L. Cummings of Nashville, who had been chivied by the Nashville Tennesseean and public opinion into following Tennessee's move to general public ownership. Said he, unmindful of TVAsters who stood near by: "Tennessee Electric Power always has given us the very best service. We regret that it is leaving the State of Tennessee...
...killings. But by strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped to undermine the monarchy. Spanish laborers drifted over the Pyrenees to France to work for war-time wages and sent money home. Yet with ownership of land and capital heavily concentrated in a few hands, peasants and stay-at-home workers failed to share in war profits...
...late, great James Couzens of Michigan had two pet political ideas: Federal taxation of tax-free securities (which made up 98% of his $34,000,000 estate) and municipal ownership of Detroit's street railway. When U. S. Senator Couzens died in 1936, the bulk of his income was still free of taxes (and would still be today). But his municipal ownership idea had long since borne fruit...