Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points were (1) that socialism in the classical sense--total state ownership and totally centralized economic planning--would lead ultimately to tyranny; (2) that the best form of economic planning in a free society is on the New Deal-Fair Deal model, with emphasis on fiscal and budgetary policy rather than on direct physical controls; and (3) that contemporary democratic socialism, recognizing the political perils in total centralization, is renouncing the classical socialist pattern in favor of the New Deal formula...
...congratulations of friends, President Truman took the only course that was still left open to him. Shaking his finger with mild indignation at the union and the operators, he asked Congress for authority to seize the mines. The power he asked for could put the mines under Government ownership until July 1, 1951. With such a chilling prospect before the operators, Lewis knew that all he had to do was sit back until they came to him. He knew furthermore that the operators' united front was cracking. His strategic waiting game...
...incorporation, according to station officials, will make an "honest woman" out of the Network in business and legal relations, by legally establishing all responsibility for WHRB activities with the members. They claim that now the "ownership" of the station is nebulous, and no one member can be held responsible in cases of technical or financial difficulties. (The University incurs no financial responsibility for undergraduate groups...
Meanwhile, there was an unexplained delay in a final court hearing. Then, in January, His Majesty's government recognized Communist China. In last week's decision, Chief Justice Sir Leslie Gibson ruled that British recognition established Red ownership of the disputed planes. "Any question as to sovereignty ... of a foreign state," he said, "is a question on which the court must be guided by the attitude of His Majesty's government. . . Our State cannot speak with two voices on such a matter, the judiciary saying one thing and the executive another...
Making a distinction between essential and non-essential liberties, Friedmann said that there was a wide middle ground of dispute, but that the ownership of water power and transportation facilities both fell into the category of non-essential liberties...