Word: spofford
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Government ownership must fail because:- (a) It would make railroads the subjects of political schemes. Hadley, ch. XIII; Hudson, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question, 18.- (b) Private enterprise would be lessened, -(c) It has failed in countries where circumstances were more favorable than in the United States. Hadley, 214, 217, 228, 246; Nation...
...fame is the authorship of "The Anglomaniacs" attempts to write an essay in a novelist's style with unfortunate results. Her subject is "Maidens and Matrons in American Society." The maidens receive further attention in a symposium "Shall our Daughters have Dowries?" by C. S. Messinger, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelin E. Barr, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Rollins...