Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the property was left to Harvard by a bequest of B. F. Keith made several years ago, and that the University owns a part of the sidewalk inasmuch as the building line extends five feet beyond the front of the present structure. According to law, a notice of ownership must be posted one week in every 20 years in order that property rights may be retained. No obstruction will be set up around the plot and no prosecutions will be carried out against trespassers...
...arguments of an increasingly discussed national problem. The speakers at this afternoon's debate are preeminently qualified to present their respective views of the case. Norman Thomas, who upholds the affirmative arguments, has for several years been an active campaigned for the cause of public ownership of natural resources in New York State. His opponent, Professor Philip Cabot served for eight years on an electric public utilities commission, and at present conducts a course in public utilities management at the Harvard Business School...
...mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase...
Senator McKellar moved that the Shipping Board be instructed to halt the sale until the Senate's Commerce Committee could investigate. The Senate, always pro-government-ownership-operation on shipping, gravely adopted the McKellar resolution. Washington's Jones, the Senate's chief shipping expert, sighed profoundly. "In my judgment," he said, "the United States will never be offered so much for the ships again...
...biggest of all automobile corporations established on the other side of the Atlantic, with a stock issue of $35,000,000. It was not Lawyer Longley's fault that Manhattan bankers played a joke on Mr. Ford by buying the stock which Mr. Ford had intended for British ownership...