Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unlike Occidental voters, under the new constitution Indians must qualify for the franchise by satisfying elaborater education and property ownership requirements. Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed numbers of Hindus (including the "depressed" classes), Moslems Britons, Indian Christians, Sikhs, Anglo-Indians, representatives of Landholders, Commerce & Industry, Labor, Woman...
Williams J. English Jr. '37, has been chosen by Aldrich Durant, 02, Business Manager of the University, to be director of the enterprise and will act as agent for the College in the operation of the lot. Ownership, the payment of taxes, and ultimate control of the space still resides in Lehman Hall however...
...purposes of these children are three; to dispute physically and verbally ownership of the field; to enjoy the H. A. A. equipment; to relieve the managers of any subsidiary supplies...
...German delegation, expressed himself against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained 1 Britain's system of allowing utilities a 7% profit and of requiring five-sixths of all profits over 7% to be used for reducing rates...
...Long Road (National Home Library, 25?) is written by Arthur E. Morgan rather as the onetime head of Antioch College than as the chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority. Believing that business has abused its powers, that the reliability of public ownership is unjustly disparaged, he does not damn big business indiscriminately. Says he: "As I worked along through the years, over and over again I found that in practical affairs the ethics of big businessmen were better than the ethics of small businessmen. . . . The difficulty then is . . . that defects of character which in a simple society may be endurable...