Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another to an unusual degree, resulting in an increasing exchange of commodities. Furthermore, recent years have witnessed a most gratifying rise in the standards of living of the wage earners throughout the Americas. They enjoy a greater productive and earning capacity, with a consequent increase in their purchasing power which has been reflected in the growing volume of inter-American commerce...
Since 1887, the emphasis of I. C. C. actions, and of laws to back up the actions, has extended from the first-named function (rate-making) to the third-named (scrutiny of financial structures). In 1906, for example, the so-called Hepburn Bill finally gave the I. C. C. power to fix rates. Whereas in 1920, the Esch-Cummins Act, which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause...
Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity...
Here Latins balk. They hark back to Liberty and Equality-Liberty to stage their own parlor revolutions if they choose. Equality with a Great Power which is simply not their equal...
...This attitude is shameless hypocrisy. Standard has proof that Shell did everything in its power for seven months in 1926 to obtain a monopoly for the sale of Russian oil. Shell failed. Shell invited all oil interests to refrain from selling Russian oil. Standard of N. Y. refused...