Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attorney answered this letter by stating that the transfer of control after the War did not legalize a claim. That the Swiss company would have to prove ownership prior to April 6, 1917, our entrance into...
...brother Bob is going to sell his half of Wilfred and so I have to sell my half-and Wilfred won't like it. He's the dearest bunny! And he loves me, I think." Amused, bewildered, His Majesty sent an equerry to inquire into the fractional ownership of Wilfred, whispered an additional command. Bob Timlinson, dazzled by the equerry with ten royal shillings ($2.45) transferred all equity by him possessed in Wilfred to the Crown. His Majesty, magnanimous, united Wilfred under a single ownership by presenting his imperial half to Kathleen...
...hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference between now and December.) ¶ Passed numerous pension...
...Vent de Volaille à la Reine. Bolshevism, prohibition, induced him to retire. "I will not submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth Ave., in the ownership of which there were associated with him "General" T. Coleman du Pont and "Colonel" Benjamin McAlpin, potent financiers...
...State Department promptly made public the text of the contract granting the concessions. This gave a British company formed for the purpose a right to explore for ten years all public lands, in certain areas, and the right to perpetual ownership of any gold mines or other mines (excepting salt, oil, coal and miner 1 water) discovered during that period. The company is made a "public utility," hence freed from all taxes; Panama is to provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission...