Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though none of the speakers at the Albert Hall rally went beyond Malvern, all made it clear that the once-conservative Church of England intends to play a leading and radical part in social reconstruction after the war. Canterbury, for instance, urged national control of money and land ownership, virtual abandonment of the profit motive, and the abolition of British class distinctions...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria advertised: "While the United Nations are fightmg for the 'Four Freedoms' on a worldwide front, the Waldorf-Astoria offers you these Four Freedoms on the Home Front: Freedom from servant problems! Freedom from transit problems! Freedom from maintenance problems! Freedom from ownership problems!" (Croaked the liberal New Republic: ". . . an outrageous and inexcusable vulgarization and commercialization of President Roosevelt's famous phrase...
Last week's change in ownership was more nominal than real, for Printer Cuneo and Kimberly-Clark (paper) have been heavily interested financially in Macfadden Publications ever since Bernarr Macfadden retired from the management last year. Macfadden will keep right on handling Liberty's newsstand and boy-sale circulation on a contract basis, and the position of the rest of the Macfadden group will be stronger with Liberty gone...
Although several colleges last year prohibited student ownership of cars after the first pinch of gas shortages, Harvard merely sent letters to students last fall pointing out that shortage and "urged" that cars be left at home...
After less than a year's ownership and rare visits to it, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen's parents sold the fabulous marble villa in Newport that mother had said she was buying daughter for a birthday present. Famed as "the Tessie Oelrichs mansion," it cost some $2,500,000 to build in 1902. The Niesens bought it for $21,000, sold...