Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Absolute ownership in all properties shall reside in the Government, and the water power and all other rights shall revert to the Government in 50 years, in compliance with the Federal Water Power...
...said that "when you were in Germany the trains and ships on which you travelled, the hotels you lived at, the shops you bought from, the newspapers you read, the banks where you cashed your drafts, the food you received to eat and innumerable other things knew the Stinnes ownership or control...
...York associate, Joseph A. Moore, got 2 shares. The General Manager got 1. Mr. Glynn, so at least the paper said, will remain as Editor. But Mr. Glynn will take a long rest, probably in Europe. On the first day of Hearst ownership the paper proclaimed...
...arrested. The Government claimed to have evidence that the Mail had been purchased with money from the German Government. Rumely declared that the money had been advanced by Herman Sielcken, "coffee king," an American citizen resident in Germany. Dr. Rumely was indicted for perjury in regard to the true ownership of the Mail, for failure to file a report of the German ownership with the Alien Property Custodian, for failure to report to the Alien Property Custodian that he was indebted to the German Government, for obstructing the U. S. Government in obtaining possession of the Mail...
...Employees of the Mail testified that Dr. Rumely had been pro-Ally and had not influenced their point of view in presenting the news. Finally, three months ago, he and his two attorneys were convicted on one count-conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government by concealing the German ownership of the Mail. The jury recommended mercy but-they were given sentences of a year and a day. An appeal to the Supreme Court failed...