Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words is a concept of society in which the State would own all means of production and private, or "capitalistic," profit would be eliminated. Regrettable is the extreme looseness of meaning which: 1) permits James Ramsay MacDonald to call himself a "Socialist," although he does not strive for State ownership of the means of production; and 2) permits Josef Stalin to be known as a "Communist," although he recently restored to Russian peasants the right of private trade with its inevitable capitalistic profits (TIME...
...Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime president of National City Bank, smart stock poolster presented Scarborough School (Scarborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.) with a deed to the school building and property. Culver Military Academy (Culver, Ind.) also passed from private ownership. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, St. Louis stove manufacturer, Culver has been owned and operated (without profit) by the heirs, who turned over to a trust foundation last week their interests, some $6,000,000 in property and other assets...
...Ownership in Hollywood confines itself to either a pent house or a woman and in "Possessed," now at Loew's State, there is only the more obvious alternative. It is the tale of a full blown tiger lily who leaves the rather shut eye environment of her plowed fields to seek more stately mansions in New York. But she differs from the other members of her calling in that she is quite frank about her purpose. When first she meets her eventual benefactor she asks him, "Are you rich?" to which he replies "Is that all you want, my money...
...Security ownership in 1932 has been surveyed and summarized by R. G. Dun & Co. It was found that during the past two years the number of stockholders in 346 companies whose issues are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, increased 41.5% and stands now at 5,848,000. The number of these corporations having less than 2,000 stockholders has decreased from...
Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...