Word: ownership
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...from a global war. The war itself was a manifestation of a larger maladjustment which afflicted American society before the war and will continue to do so after it. This maladjustment results from two fundamental and unresolved difficulties: 1) the relation of management and labor; 2) the control and ownership of the tools of production. Unless these grave problems are solved in the spirit of what he calls "American radicalism," he believes the U.S. will be embroiled in civil war at home, unable to fulfill any but an irresolute role internationally...
...result, says McWilliams, was tragic. The Indians were used to tribal ownership; once their holdings became individual they fell prey to swindlers and land-grabbers; their cultural and social solidarity fell apart. (This, McWilliams believes, was the intention of the Dawes Act.) Their language was suppressed in schools ("truly nightmarish institutions"), their religious ceremonies discouraged, their arts and crafts allowed to fade away. By 1923 they had declined in numbers "from the pre-Columbian estimate of 850,000 to around...
...Author. Vigorous, radical Carey McWilliams is 37. A California attorney, he has charged headlong into the knottiest problems of California labor conditions, agriculture, land policy; enraged growers by plumping for collective ownership as the answer to California's farm problems (TIME, April 1, 1940). An organizer of The John Steinbeck Committee (bitter enemy of California's Associated Farmers), McWilliams was appointed (1939) California Commissioner of Immigration and Housing by newly elected Governor Culbert L. Olson. He held the post for four years, campaigned vigorously against Republican Nominee for Governor Earl Warren. When Warren, strongly supported by the Associated...
...Lend-Lease observer, whose job will be to stimulate trade with Ethiopia, and to find out what Ethiopia can contribute to the Allied war effort. The U.S. representative will find the Emperor adamant on one point: he is determined not to allow foreign economic penetration or ownership that might further cloud Ethiopia's sovereignty...
...syndicate) he bought no less an item than London's Covent Garden Opera House, complete with the vast Covent Garden vegetable market that adjoins it. When World War I broke, Beecham pere's colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid bill for $15,000,000. Having achieved this stroke of financial wizardry, Joseph Beecham died and left the magic to Tommy. The bequest kept Thomas Beecham in & out of English bankruptcy courts for nearly 20 years...