Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amos Richard Eno Pinchot.*; If you want one of these men for President, you can take a hand in nominating him. The Committee of 48 proposed the above choice in a questionnaire and offered as a platform: 1) public ownership of the railroads, 2) control of money and credit by the people through Government and cooperative banks, 3) public control of natural resources, 4) preservation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, 5) prevent on of judicial abuses. If a local unit of at least 25 people sign a petition endorsing the above platform, it is entitled to one delegate...
...greatest example of multiple newspaper ownership in the country is the Scripps-Howard group, consisting of 26 dailies. Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard own and control this group. Most of their papers were established, not purchased, by them. Their circulation is 1,270,843 daily, and of all their papers 'only one publishes a Sunday edition-the Pittsburgh Press, acquired last year...
...years Cursolo and Orasso, small villages, have engaged in litigation over the ownership of a large towering rock in the mountains, a claim to which neither has been willing to surrender. Following precedent established by some of the Great Powers, the villages decided to submit the case to arbitration...
Thus it must be noticed that the object of the library remains unchanged. What is changed is that the ownership passed from Mr. Morgan to the Trustees, of whom he, his wife, two sons and two other persons* closely connected with him, are members. Mr. Morgan's object in transferring the ownership is patent. Presumably Mr. Morgan's heir might have been left free to 'disperse the entire collection at his pleasure. By conveying the library to a Board of Trustees, its present nature will be kept for at least 100 years. All studentdom has reason to be duly grateful...
...peaceful in the American copper industry; considerable dispute has risen over a proposed tariff to shut out cheap foreign production. Every copper company is taking sides according to its interests. Leading companies to suffer by such a tariff are: Anaconda, with extensive production in Chile through ownership of the Chile Copper Co.; Kennecott, which owns Breden Copper, also in Chile; Phelps-Dodge and Green Cananea, with hold-ings in Mexico; and Granby Consolidated, in the properties in British Columbia. Many of these companies also have American mines...