Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Jorge Negrete (who had bought it innocently enough), officials took a brand-new Cadillac, and announced that owners of other smuggled cars faced the same treatment plus a six-year jail term and a $1,000 fine. Last week, motorists driving into Mexico were asked to surrender car-ownership certificates at the border. Federal inspectors also moved in on bribe-taking customs men who connived in letting big shipments through, arrested five customs officers...
Experimental Ownership. The same profound suspicion, he says, accounts for many odd quirks of Negro behavior. Negro tenants who pick up and leave their farrners sometimes do so, Cohn says, for a purely experimental purpose: to find out if they will really be allowed to keep mules or farm implements which they have bought from the landlord...
...Sierra Madres, Huntington built two immense homes for his treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...
...write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a fair and free election to decide who shall govern the country? 5) The right to private ownership of business...
Despite the investigations, N.A.N.A. still planned to release its series. (LIFE bought excerpts for its March 29 issue.) But Doubleday was in a swivet. It postponed publication of its book until the question of ownership could be cleared up. If OAP claimed the diaries, and it looked as if it would, the Government could reap the profits from this bestseller...