Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unique and I have repeatedly avowed our immense indebtedness to Karl Marx. No Socialist can be too dogmatic just now about the "sample life'' concerning which your representative asked me. I am inclined to think that proper land taxation would, if anything, facilitate-not, of course, the ownership of great estates-but the general possession by those who so desire on terms of occupancy and use of some lands around a house for grounds and garden. At any rate. Socialism wants to stress the fact that with intelligent management of the machinery and resources we have...
...Bessemer & Lake Erie from U. S. Steel Corp. Pennsylvania must shuffle off its New England holdings. New York Central must persuade the Henry Huddleston Rogers estate to part with Virginian, now held for a fancy price. B. & O. must buy New York Central out of Reading and complete its ownership of Western Maryland. As each system pieces together its many parts, it must appear before the I. C. C. with an application to execute its share of the general plan...
...with Farm Board funds. Though Farmers National has always been able to buy & sell, it lost its clearing privileges when its subsidiary, Updike Grain Co., a member of the Board of Trade's affiliated clearing corporation, was suspended because its officers were charged with swearing false affidavits of ownership (TIME, June 6).* To avoid paying commissions to other members of the clearing corporation for handling their settlements, Farmers National applied for the privilege of settling its heavy transactions itself, was refused membership in the clearing corporation because of the Board's ruling prohibiting corporations (as against partnerships with...
...Governor Roosevelt's famed "forgotten man." Both relief theories are based on the same assumption, namely, that debtors are to be tided over until prices rise to restore solvency. Without that price rise either theory would obviously fail, leaving in its wake a widespread form of government ownership...
...commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves. Last week he was on one of his infrequent visits to his country home at Darien, Conn. Questioned, he said he approved of the western roads' plan...