Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosive phase. The first phase was investigating the industry's propaganda in schools, colleges and the Press (TIME, July 16, 1928 et seq.). Then the investigators tackled the more difficult job of ascertaining the financial set-up of the industry, the relationship between holding and operating companies, stock ownership, management fees, interlocking directorates. After a year's secret work, the investigators are now ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly...
...members of the Commission have a majority (seven-to-six), the report makes clear that individual members do not subscribe to all its premises. Seven separate subcommittees in the Commission wrote the seven sections: Christianity and the Economic Order; Economic Implications of Being a Student; Individual Spending, Income and Ownership; Economic Aspects of Vocational Choice and Planning; Students and Modern Industry; The Contribution of the Cooperative Movement: Toward a New Economic Order...
...only a n8-mi. bridge line, north & south across the Potomac. What promised to point up the R. F. & P. assessment into a test case of greater legal importance than the St. Louis & O'Fallon case, was the ownership of R. F. & P. Instead of a small independent carrier the I. C. C. was really tackling the six biggest and most powerful railroads in the East?Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and Southern? joint proprietors of the R. F. & P. and sole beneficiaries of its excess profits. Counting...
Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism, and socialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made independent of our educational system...
Most men working in the Scripps-Howard organization find difficulty in defining where one of their chiefs leaves off and the other begins. Officially, Scripps is president, controlling stockholder (he inherited the 40% ownership from his father) and editorial director. If imagination be stretched he could discharge his good friend Howard, second-biggest stockholder or General Manager Hawkins, third biggest. (The rest is distributed throughout the chain.) But neither aspires to be a dictator. To almost everyone in the company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows...