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Word: propertyless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor no longer is a disinherited, propertyless minority, but comprises the majority of Americans. Labor and management now bargain from relatively equal strength; government intervention only prevents or delays bona fide bargaining and settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Authentic American Center | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Fear of the propertyless masses in eastern cities prompted arguments like the following which was expressed at the Pennsylvania constitutional convention...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Teenage Vote: More to be Gained than Lost | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

Among possible motives of Bulgaria's Communist government were: 1) a horde of homeless, propertyless refugees, arriving as winter began, would severely tax the strained Turkish national treasury; 2) it would rid Bulgaria of an unassimilable group, living near its strategic frontiers; 3) it would make even more docile the 600,000 Turkish Moslems who stayed behind; 4) it would provide an excellent avenue for sneaking into Turkey hundreds of Red agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Premeditated Disaster | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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