Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted ownership of the stock, assailed the union leaders as "irresponsibles.'" The county bar association denounced Homer Martin for his effrontery, but the American Bar Association, convening in Columbus, Ohio, referred the matter to a committee for investigation. Protesting that it had been unaware of Judge Black's stock ownership...
...distribution of fine works by living American painters. The group plans to select 48 pictures a year for large scale reproduction by the "collotype" process, endorsed by experts as the best now known. Royalties from the sale of the prints are paid to the artists themselves regardless of the ownership of the original, providing the painters with an entirely new source of income...
Said Mr. Ball gently: "I would be very glad to discuss that proposition with you." The audience guffawed and Senator Wheeler, whose bias is for government ownership, winced...
With its population of 2,741,083,* Brooklyn is bigger than Detroit or Philadelphia. Last week the line-up of newspaper ownership in this teeming borough of New York City was altered when the 95-year-old Eagle tucked the 88-year-old Times-Union under its wing. Henceforth both papers will be published, separately and under their own names, by the Eagle company...
...felt that congratulations are due LIFE upon its performance in more than justifying the confidence placed in its creators by charter subscribers. The great interest exhibited by my friends in my copy brings me no little pride in its ownership...