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