Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police-Negro tensions continued very high throughout the area. In Newark, police and National Guardsmen were accused of deliberately smashing windows of stores bearing the legend "Soul Brother"-a sign of Negro ownership. In one case, each letter of "soul" was stitched with bullets. Often, when snipers fired from rooftops or windows, lawmen responded by riddling the entire building with withering fusillades, despite commands to "know your target before firing." Mrs. Eloise Spellman, 41, mother of eleven, died when she stood up from her living room couch just as a police barrage began...
Negro youths clambered onto the iron grilles shielding store fronts and, straining in unison, ripped them free. They sometimes spared stores whose windows bore the crayoned legend "Soul Brother," a sign of Negro ownership. In stores owned by "Whitey," clothing was stripped from mannequins, and the headless, pale pink forms soon dotted the length of Springfield Avenue, one of Newark's shopping streets, along with a fine, crunchy layer of window glass. Women pranced through supermarkets with shopping carts, picking and choosing with unwonted indifference to price tags. One young Negro mother was stopped by cops as she exited...
...Timothy Pickering, a Massachusetts Federalist and former Secretary of State, who in 1810 divulged on the Senate floor a carefully guarded secret message from France's Foreign Minister Talleyrand, weakening the U.S. case in the dispute over ownership of western Florida...
...modern corporation has become just too large for any individual to swing much power. The entrepreneur, like the father of a bee, "accomplishes his act of conception at the price of his own extinction." Shareholders cannot even pretend to power because ownership of stock has become so diffuse. Big capitalists and bankers have lost influence because the typical corporation generates its own funds and does not need to borrow so much. The corporation has also become so bafflingly complex that even the chief executive is often little more than a symbol, a cheerleader and a rubber stamp for decisions that...
...work, and power will be exercised in accordance with an ethic that consciously rejects the goals of higher consumption and materialistic satisfaction. Radical change, in this case, will not only replace the present owners of the means of production but will challenge the entire ethic which makes such ownership worth while. For SDSers reject the "crass materialism" of present society -- the values as Greg Calvert notes, that "transform people into consumers of things." They reject the statistical economic indices of the government -- employment rates, gross national product, etc. -- as true measures of the quality of life. The "main and transcending...