Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...
That joint ownership complicates General Motors aviation activities and folds it into the entire U. S. flying fabric. Because...
...evident that there is a basis for self-regulation in business, which will relieve the Church and the Law of some of its most difficult problems. Another example of this same trend in business is the divesting of the interests of the International Paper and Power Company from the ownership of such newspapers as the Boston Herald...
More extraordinary, the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than...
...utility progress under a Labor ministry, Lord Birkenhead remarked: "The present ministry is for state ownership in the abstract. Yet this same government is helpless to take any steps in that direction...