Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum so the law abhors a vacant ownership of anything. In the U. S. the States are the original and ultimate proprietors of all lands within their jurisdictions. And the ancient feudal doctrine of Escheat or accidental reverting of lands to the original lord has been applied in modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed...
...though the first important strike was made at Hardstoft, Derbyshire, in 1919 when oil was discovered about 3,000 ft. below a field of oat stubble. About 100 tons a year have since been produced. Encouraged by this small but steady uninterrupted gush, the Government in 1934 established State ownership of all domestic oil, hoping to make the Navy independent of foreign supplies. Enthusiastic geologists soon began to talk of the possibility of finding oil along a belt stretching from the west coast of Wales to the east coast of Yorkshire, and in Somerset and Sussex...
...favorite nephew The paper's President & Editor Harry Johnston Grant, who already owned 20% of the Journal, thereupon announced that he and Niece McBeath wanted to have the Nieman stock made available for a plan whereby the Journal's employes could buy in on the ownership (TIME, June...
This week, with the court's blessing because he is credited with the Journal's present prosperity, President Grant was ready to reveal his plan. It proved to be as comprehensive a set-up for employe-ownership of a newspaper's stock as the U.S. has ever seen...
...bill which outlaws block-booking. Last year the bill stuck in committee. This year Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year. The big producers are marshaling their forces to test its constitutionality in court. Last week North Dakota...