Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently announced Labor platform (TIME, Oct. 19) as "the most fantastic and impractical ever," Slasher Snowden attacked & summarized it thus: "All derelict industries are to.be taken over by the state and the taxpayers are to shoulder the losses. Banks and financial houses are to be placed under national ownership and control. Your investments are to be ordered by some board, and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism...
...Government, considering Capone's ownership of gambling houses proved, set out to show how he had spent the returns, holding that large expenditures would prove the existence of a taxable income. While Snorkey dug a stubby forefinger into his right ear, letters were read from Lawrence P. Mattingly, Washington income tax attorney retained by Capone in 1930, to show that Capone offered to compromise with the Government and pay a delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read...
...country's banking and credit system can no longer be left in private hands. It must be brought directly under national ownership and control. The Labor Party is further convinced of the need to form a national investment board with statutory powers for the control of domestic and foreign investments...
...national policy, it seems to me, must not be Government ownership. The capitalistic system has its defects of course?periods of enforced unemployment are perhaps the worst?but it has centuries of evolutionary growth back of it, and under it we have come to lead the nations of the world in every form of progress. I do not believe in crippling...
...company did not need money. Said he: "[The company] has never had a losing year. It was making money before the depression. It has been making money since the depression. It is making money now. The purpose of the financing, he said, was primarily to provide a "subscriber ownership...