Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...root in France," declared Professor Henri Guy of the University of Toulouse, who arrived Wednesday to take up his duties as exchange professor in French literature, in an interview for the CRIMSON, "for two fundamental reasons. In the first place, most French peasants own their farms, and the private ownership of property is thus widely distributed. And since food prices are so high, the agricultural population, who are in the majority, receive a distinct financial benefit. The French peasant sees no advantage in the Bolshevist doctrines, and will be slow to adopt them...
...railroads have emerged from the war period and from two years of Federal operation in a badly crippled condition physically and with a lowered morale in organization. Under the legislation of 1920, private ownership and operation have been given a new lease of life, but their continuance depends upon the results of the next year or two. Under the terms of the new law the railroads must have "honest, efficient, and economical management...
...large audience which closely followed every word of the three speakers, Harry W. Laidler, Ph.D., Columbia, said that the greatest movement of the day was that on the part of the people toward industrial democracy and that the aim of the socialists, for which he spoke, was the public ownership of all industries producing the necessities of life. After pointing out the difference between the average socialist and the guild socialist, he outlined the four tactical paths through which the Socialist Party is working to procure its ends, namely, through the unification of the separated movements for democratic control; through...
...which may quite likely decide against them, union leaders find it more advantageous to strike directly, knowing that the law can not be adequately enforced against them. Since Australia has already passed through the stage in which the United States finds itself in regard to labor conditions and government ownership of industries, Mr. Sheldon's address should prove of great value in throwing light on present-day American problems...
...most significant and far reaching issues of the election is the adoption by California by a large majority of the amendment to the alien land-tenure act. The existing law, adopted in 1913, prohibits actual ownership of farm lands to aliens who are ineligible for American citizenship. The amendment, however, takes away from such aliens the privilege of even leasing lands for three years and will place minor land-owning aliens under the guardianship of a public administrator. The movement is based on the apprehension of a menacing increase in Japanese immigration...