Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., has just received $60,000 as an addition to its permanent endowment fund, a gift from William Bucknell, a Philadelphia capitalist, who has given over $300,000 to the university...
...looks triumphantly at the struggling mortal next to him who sees with horror that his first comes on Jan. 27th and his last on February 11th. Every time when this "mene mene tekel" appears on the walls of Cambridge, there is a panic abroad in the land. Let the capitalist, the owner of ten days' vacation hide his glee that the envy of others may be less...
...great parties represent the capitalist class; (b) the interests of the laborers are not the same as those of the capitalists...
...Harper's Magazine contains a very interesting article on the great Lick Observatory of California, which, when completed, will contain the largest telescope in the world. The gentleman who contributed the money for this great undertaking, and for whom the observatory is named, was a Mr. Lick, a California capitalist. Up to 1873 he was known to the public only as a shrewd business man of a retiring and rather eccentric nature. In that year he surprised everyone by making over his entire fortune to a board of trustees to be expended for public and scientifle purposes. The object...
...this. Wages in Massachusetts are 62 per cent. higher than in England, while the cost of living is only per cent. higher. United States census reports confirm this. Mr. Edward Atkinson's statistics give further proof of the benefits of Protection. He shows that while the profits of the capitalist have fallen, wages have risen...