Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look forward to a reduction in the number of those citizens who are in need. Therefore, also, we can anticipate a reduction in our appropriations for relief. In the light of our substantial material progress, in the light of the increasing effectiveness of the restoration of popular rule, I recommend to the Congress that we advance and that we do not retreat...
...honest Cincinnatians freed their city from boss rule by voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry to burn with reforming zeal all year round. But, as successive city campaigns have shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term...
...This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across the Ohio River in Kentucky, he was brutally beaten by sheeted men who said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium's women and children." In 1924 he was sponsoring a charter reform when the City Charter Committee was just getting...
...other side takes the attitude that such redistribution of wealth is not the Government's business, not intrinsically, but because private capitalism can handle the old age problem far more efficiently, more intelligently, more democratically, and more honestly. At present the aged are not, as a general rule, starving to death. They are supported by charity, in a small number of cases, by past thrift, in a larger number of cases, and by relations, in the majority of cases...
...common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid $10 in one year including a $1 "Red Cross" special. Sales have dropped about 50% since 1929 when the company took in $15,600,000, kept $854,000 as profit. Deficits have since been the rule but the company is thoroughly solvent...