Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left open for future consideration the question of forming a new league...
...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...question of the evening, "Resolred, That the government should suppress trusts," was opened for the affirmative by Mr. G. A. Reisner '89. He said that the object of trusts is to secure greater profits in this way. The combination of capital, by producing on a large scale, reduces the cost of production, and lowers prices, till competitors are driven out of business by being undersold. When the complete control of the market is thus secured prices are raised without any limit except the greed of the trust. The very idea of a trust is to abolish competition. Owing...
...concentration of capital into a few hands. Industry is conducted on a large scale because this is the best way. Business men and scholars alike pronounce competition a failure wherever much fixed capital is employed. Pools have been legalized abroad and should be carefully regulated, but all efforts to suppress them are footish...
...question for the Harvard Union debate tonight is: Resoleed, "That the government should suppress tiusts. The principal disputants are as follows: Affirmative, E. T. Sanford, L. S., and G. A. Reisuer, '89. negative, J. A. Bailey, L. S; and A. P. Butterworth...