Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Laborite president of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, outlined the new Government's program for industry last fall, he promised not only Government ownership of the key industries but "a system of planned and controlled private enterprise for the rest." To deal with "the rest" he set up three-sided "working parties"-representing labor, management, and the public interest...
Many broadcasters view Cliff Durr as an alarming threat to free radio, a harbinger of Government ownership. His background only partially qualifies him as a socialist reformer. Born to an aristocratic Alabama family, he won a Rhodes scholarship in 1920, earned his degree in jurisprudence and his "blue" (letter) in rugby at Oxford. Back in Alabama, he became a corporation attorney, married Justice Hugo Black's sister-in-law. Some time after joining RFC's legal division, he tied with a colleague in a stenographers' vote for the "biggest hayseed" on the staff. He was a director...
...years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...
...Justice wins its suit, Inco will have to divest itself of its U.S. subsidiary, eliminate fill interlocking ownership of the two companies...
...Received from the Judiciary Committee a House-passed bill restoring to state ownership all tidewater oil deposits (an issue over which Ed Pauley had stubbed his toe as candidate for Under Secretary of the Navy...