Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former regime the present one is. The first act of Lenin, who was the most ardent and idealistic of the pure communists, was a contradiction in face of the communistic principles he had been preaching. It was to give the land over to the peasants for individual, not communal, ownership...
...Government should acquire the ownership of all British coal deposits, at an estimated cost of 100 million pounds (1/2 billion dollars), and then lease these deposits to private operating concerns...
...from acquiring in any manner any voting interest in more than one company in any one line of business in one section or community in the U. S. Directors of two or more competing concerns may not be in the management. No use may ever be made of stock ownership, interlocking directorates or any similar means to reduce competition among companies selling food stuffs...
...Here we are at the trial to see whether the Transportation act will work. We are to see whether this is a consistent piece of legislation intended to strike midway between doing nothing and Government ownership. It is of almost tragic importance in that it is the first attempt to try out a national policy, and the suggestion of fraud is most unfortunate. It will have no effect here, but it goes spawning through the records and hatches new troubles and difficulties in out of the way places...
...first Mr. George pleaded for this unemployment panacea in its original form: 1) "Resumption of ownership" by the Government of all arable land; 2) the former landlords to be reimbursed by guaranteed sums equivalent to their present rent; 3) unemployed city and country laborers to be drawn into the small farmer class as "cultivating tenants" of the Government...