Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tend to give a rather distorted point of view of my opinions. Thus I insist that the dominant principle in a good society must be cooperation and that cooperation requires planning in which the state must play a great role. I specifically discuss the necessity for extending social ownership under democratic controls. While I agree that capitalism is not the cause of war and that socialism is not an automatic panacea for peace, I do definitely suggest the contribution to peace that democratic socialism should make...
With the Administration pledged to state ownership of the oil land, however, Attorney General Herbert Brownell must now support the Texas claim. Anxious to avoid a Court dispute, Brownell has suggested letting the coastal states take the oil from the submerged land without giving them title to the disputed sea bottom. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay and other proponents of state-ownership have charged Brownell with backing off the party platform. And those favoring Federal control are grumbling over the loss of revenue to the nation...
...therefore tantalizing when Professor Bundy wrote on Saturday to criticize the article. He corrected the statement that he had proposed "individual treatment"; he had merely concurred with the University's policy. He also disclaimed his ownership of an epigram by Lord Keynes. He protested no further than this. He did not point out that if he had any ideas about defending ourselves against the attacks of "society," they were more precise than a "constant concern with the excellence of the University," and that he was poorly represented by such a quotation. He did not complain on behalf of his fellow...
...Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee wound up its hearings on tide-lands and prepared to send to the Senate floor a bill which would carry out Dwight Eisenhower's campaign promise to give the states ownership of the oil-rich offshore lands lying within their historic boundaries...
...Norman Thomas, 68, six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in the U.S., outlined a new policy for American Socialists. Wrote he, in a pamphlet called Democratic Socialism-A New Appraisal: "The working class is not the Messiah which some of us thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should recognize that material progress...