Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Darrow: The choice is between monopoly sustained by government, which Is clearly the trend in the National Recovery Administration, and a planned economy, which demands socialized ownership and control, since only by collective ownership can the inevitable conflict of separately owned units for the market be eliminated in favor of planned production. There is no hope for the small businessman or for complete recovery in America in enforced restriction upon production for the purpose of maintaining higher prices. The hope for the American people . . . lies in the planned use of America's resources following socialization...
...more or less deceptive advertising. . . . Given a literate population, the press becomes one of the instruments of government. ... If the press is financed by the vested property interests of business, then in the end business becomes government." Taking his tip from the late great Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership (1923), Rorty analyzes the growth and present state of advertising, finds it has established a U. S. pseudoculture, has attempted to graft its salesman's values on the old U. S. tradition. He thinks the U. S. "tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms...
...Poetic license. Soviet doctrine favors nationalization, not individual ownership, of agricultural lands (see No Philosophical Abstractions under Russia, Foreign News...
...Last week in Wisconsin elections six communities voted for municipal operation of local utility plants. Seven others rejected municipal ownership. In Madison, the state capital, both sides claimed a victory because the citizens voted to buy the local power & light system but turned down a $30,000 appropriation necessary for appraisal before purchase...
Last week in the Legislatures of almost every state in the Union, in almost every town, city and county in the land, a local utility skirmish was in hot progress. Lower rates, municipal ownership, more stringent regulation, supervision of holding companies were the principal issues. In the Press, utility men were replacing banksters as the favorite object of abuse. But unlike banksters, who suffered in silence, utility men were hitting back. With power production climbing to 1931 levels, their cause was worth the fight...