Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired...
...from TIME more concerning price paid and net investment of Woodyard brothers in their weekly newspapers [TIME, July 9] What percentage of net investment came in the 1934 dividends? The writer's experience has been that every daily newsman at some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented...
...Lilienthal. Short, baldish and a bear for work. Dave Lilienthal like a number of other New Dealers is young (35), Jewish and a Harvard Law School graduate who was fired with his zest for public wealing by Felix Frankfurter. For years he has been battling the ogre of private ownership. President Roosevelt picked him from Wisconsin's unorthodox public service commission...
...three weeks ago after he had set up a Fascist Dictatorship following a sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...bondholders would get about 90¶ on the dollar. If he leaves it, Tennessee Public Service will suffer such cut-rate competition from a municipal system at Knoxville that bondholders would be lucky to get anything. No matter what his decision is, an important precedent for all future public-ownership programs in the Tennessee Valley will be created...