Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...greatly over-crowded. This is the essence of scores of complaints from associations of citizens representing all sections of New York City, which appear in the Street Railway Commission's reports year after year, but yet the condition has been little improved. Elder then cited several other evidences of popular dissatisfaction...
...speaker went on to show that the whole trend of contract letting in New York City has been honeycombed with graft and bribery. Tammany is opposed to municipal ownership as a party issue, knowing that it will never be popular, since the graft in it is so obvious...
...showing how the public would be benefited from a better understanding of economic principles the lecturer pointed out several popular misapprehensions. Industry formerly consisted in the production of articles for the community by its members, and not often was one man able to influence the production of other places. But today, owing to the continual industrial revolutions, the wealth-producing machine has grown complex and often the trade of a district and sometimes of many states is influenced by the will of a small body of men, who are perhaps far off and over whom there is no legal control...
...intensity of patriotic feeling in France is not stirred in these days by men who fill the public imagination. The watchwords of the Republic are the same as those of the Revolution, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"; and any disagreement with these principles is hailed as treason. A popular uproar arose at the proposition to erect a monument to Taine, who through his stimulating and ultimately creative power was one of the greatest minds of his time, and added widely to the literary reputation of France. People believed that his principles, if carried out, would undo the Revolution. He was in their...
...which use deposit credit very little and are the least able to bear the burden. The system is unscientific in that is fails to respond to commercial needs and renders the supply of currency dependent on the price of Government bonds. All these faults are suffered to continue through popular prejudice, inertia in the public mind and indifference or helplessness on the part of the banker...