Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running...
...Ownership of Cinemactress Chatterton was a newsquestion of interest to more than the gumchewing public of chatter-chippies because, 1) she is so far the only famed female stage-star to make an even greater success in talkies than she had previously made on the stage; 2) she has probably made more successful talkies than any other cinemactress...
...feel inclined to run an acknowledgment of this error under Letters. The Detroit Times has been second in circulation in Detroit since March, 1923, on the daily paper, and second in the Sunday field since March, 1925, and this paper is only ten years old under the ownership of William Randolph Hearst...
With conservative railroad executives the least popular member of the Interstate Commerce Commission is Joseph Bartlett Eastman of Massachusetts. They consider him "dangerously radical." Vainly did they implore President Hoover not to reappoint him. Last week in Manhattan Commissioner Eastman, twelve years in office, made a speech about government ownership which explained in part why railmen dislike him. Excerpts...
...most intense portion of his encyclical Pope Pius termed Communists degenerate, cruel, inhuman, impious, nefarious, and many of their works ghastly. "One section of Socialism," declared His Holiness, "has degenerated into Communism. Communism teaches and pursues a two-fold aim: Merciless class warfare and complete abolition of private ownership. And this it does, not in secret and by hidden methods, but openly, frankly and by every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel and inhuman they...