Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question of the ownership or control of the Shantung Peninsula, a difficulty which has baffled solution by the experts at the Peace Conference, the majority of people in America may be divided into two groups; those who believe China should retain possession of Shantung, and those who believe the sovereignty of that land is necessary to development and prosperity of Japan. And these two classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend...
...main features of the plan, government ownership, management by employees, and government payment of deficit, are all well known, and all three are pernicious. The first of these, government ownership, is a very dangerous principle in a democracy like the United States. Sooner or later the railroads would become the pawns of the political parties, both working for their control. The spoils system on a new and greater scale would be rejuvenated. Moreover, under this plan, the employees of the railroads would have effective control over the hours they work and over the pay they would receive for that work...
Professor W. B. Munro, Ph.D. '00, will speak on "Government Ownership and Control" at a forum to be held in the Parish House of the First Church (Unitarian) Harvard Square, at 7.30 o'clock this evening...
Many economists are beginning to accept as inevitable the permanent operation of our railroads by the government. The inextricable tangle into which the railroads were plunged even before this country had entered the war seems in itself almost sufficient proof that government ownership should be adopted to avoid the repetition of such a disaster. In a country where the geographical division of labor and industry has been carried to such an extent as in America, the welfare of the people demands efficient and unified service on the part of the railroads at all times; conflicting interests of shippers...
...modern evolution. The first remedy for restricting monopoly is public regulation. During the last decades it has entered every sphere of industrial life. Unfortunately it has not worked well, and has been a serious menace to progress. The tendency of such control is almost without exception to crush private ownership. The railroads illustrate only too well how government supervision squeezes industry until it is no longer worth while for individuals to conduct it. At such a point economic organization evolves into public ownership, as it has done in the past and as it will doubtless continue...