Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often hears of the enormous fortunes made in the oil business that many persons come to believe that ownership of oil stock, or of an oil lease is an unfailing road to wealth. Some persons even seem to believe that an oil geologist belongs in this same category. Few persons who have not had personal experience in the oil business are aware of the pitfalls in the path of a would-be investor, or of the difficulties and dangers that must he surmounted before arriving at the goal of accrued dividends. The object of this brief paper is to advise...
Opposed to Government Ownership...
...March 16th a trade compact between Soviet Russia and Great Britain was signed in Lodon. This agreement, however, cannot be put into effect until the question of ownership of Russian money or goods is reconsidered by the British courts, since a court decision, already handed down in England, denies Soviet ownership of confiscated Russian property. Now a test cast is being brought forward to see if this decision will be reversed. If it is not, the Bolshevist representative, Mr. Krassin, admits that trade is impossible. It is interesting to consider why the agreement should have been signed before the case...
...other hand Lloyd George's motives are harder to understand. Most statement would have waited, not only for a final court decision as to the ownership of Russian gold, but until the Kronstadt matter was finally settled. Yet in the critical condition of home affairs a very good reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing...
...been intimated further that Japan is clinging to Yap for purposes of negotiation: ownership of land in California, the occupation of Siberia, the Shantung question, and various other phases of Japanese policy would be accorded settlement more favorable to Nippon if she held the whip hand over us by virtue of the Yap dispute. With this in mind, the Japanese stand firm upon the question. But mature consideration of the place which the United States now holds in the financial and commercial world, and the keystone position she maintains with reference to German reparations would seem to indicate that...