Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of the railroads to their private owners at 12.01 this morning marks the end of an experiment in government ownership which the nation will not soon wish to repeat. This with the passage of the conservative railroad bill puts an end to propositions for the nationalization of industry...
...served with the Bureau of Efficiency at Washington. Later he was a member of the Committee on Standardization of Telephone Rates, and was associated with the Wire Control Board at Washington until the telephones were returned to private management: He is the author of books on the public ownership of telephones in Europe and on state government in the United States...
...retreat for either. It is a definite system of civil polity. the Radical of today is not the Liberal of tomorrow. Milyoukov is still a Liberal. Liberalism does not seek a compromise between the two extremes. Its fundamental belief is the goodness of the system of private ownership of the means of production and distribution. Simply because it holds this belief does not establish that it was taken from Conservatism. It realizes that there are evils in the system, but contends that they are superficial and not inherent, and that they are remediable and are being remedied by state intervention...
...seed of the old trees. As in Russia, the tree dies, and the prospects of impoverishment are met with the good fortune of having found some remnant of the stock of seed of the past. Lenine has accepted the necessity of granting the two concessions of private peasant ownership of land and a fir rate of interest from the Peasants' Banks...
...principal objections to the Plumb Plan is the inefficiency in management which would result. Government ownership has everywhere proved less successful than private management, our present experience with the railroads being a case in point. Moreover, the interests of the public would not control the policy and direction of the railroads under the Plumb Plan, but rather the interests of the railroad men themselves...