Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas advocated a Socialist program of government ownership, which he declared would be no mere "radical" today than the atomic bomb. Professor Smith doubted that "full employment to attainable in a system of full free private enterprise and free choice by purchasers." Senator Hickenlooper maintained that "it would be utter folly for the government to rearrange our economy and create the illusion that everyone would have...
...early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads, labor legislation and farm relief, he was speaking for thousands of poor, proud, stubborn, toiling men. They elected him governor thrice, sent him to the U.S. Senate for four terms as an insurgent Republican...
...sale of the Pullman Co. to a combination of 52 railroads. Although the sale had been approved by a District Court as a method of dissolving Pullman's monopoly, Justice argued that this would merely set up a new monopoly. Justice's candidate for ownership of the Pullmans: Bob Young...
...develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona: the state is lopsidedly (7-to-1) Democratic...
Once-in 1859-the two countries tried to settle the dispute. Guatemala offered to recognize Britain's ownership provided Britain built a road between Guatemala City and the east coast. The British agreed, then reneged. That, argued Guatemala, outlawed the whole deal...