Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers on her first trip under private ownership...
Inevitable were thoughts of the still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able...
...first 25 years of his ownership, Publisher Ochs made the paper produce $100,000,000, more than 90 millions of which he poured back into the property for expansion and improvement. Last year it printed more than 30,000,000 lines of advertising, for which the public paid from 55? to $10.00 per line...
Louis Wiley, business manager, has been with Mr. Ochs's Times since its beginning. Carr V. Van Anda was managing editor through the paper's Great War days. He still holds the title but is virtually retired, reputed to be enormously rich, chiefly from stock ownership in the paper. Frederick T. Birchall, long with the Times, is acting managing editor. David H. Joseph, city editor, up from Kentucky, has given nearly 20 years to the paper. Beginning as police reporter, he now commands some 250 pairs of eyes and ears...
...Ownership. The Phelps Dodge combination had its origin in Anson Greene Phelps who was born at Simsbury, Conn., in 1781. He was a saddler by trade but came to New York and set up in the tin plate and metal business. One of his six children, Melissa, married William Earle Dodge who was a dry goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps...