Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The district leaders of Tammany were glad because John Francis Curry is one of their own kind. He had been elected chief of Tammany over the potent opposition of Alfred Emanuel Smith, between the Tammany district "boys" and whom there is a wide difference, a difference springing from causes which...
The discovery that a great corporation which manufactures both paper and electrical power has been acquiring a financial interest in certain newspapers has provided the occasion for declarations on the importance of an independent press. These declarations are important. Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news...
The maintenance of independence against these subtler influences depends at last upon the personal and professional self-respect of newspaper men themselves. It depends upon how seriously they believe in their own work. N.Y. World
"I'm afraid that you American citizens would know more than I about how the League of Nations affects the United States but it has had a tremendous influence on my own country, Canada," said Sir Herbert Ames, who was Treasurer of the League from 1919 to 1926 and, previous...
The obvious answer to the problem is that the present idle surplus of the H. A. A. be used in completing the gymnasium. What earthly objection there can be to such a plan it is hard to imagine. The H. A. A. itself is in favor of it but has...