Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a joint resolution introduced by Nebraska's Norris appropriating $150,000 for investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of propaganda circulated by private utilities against public ownership, after adopting an amendment offered by Utah's King broadening its scope to include an investigation of propaganda used by Government agencies against private ownership. Sent it to the House...
...producing company, has already been completely Nazified with paunchy Emil Jannings as one of its actor-directors. The gobbling of UFA not only gave the Goebbels office a hold on Germany's cinema industry as strong as that it already has over the press; it gave Goebbels virtual ownership. In March, even before the switch in directors, an anonymous group bought control of UFA from the Hugenberg group. Berlin film men insisted last week that the real owner of UFA and Tobis is the Franz Eher Publishing Co., which in turn publishes the Nazi news-organ Volkischer Beobachter...
Greenland, biggest island in the world, more than eight times as big as Great Britain, for 200 years was a bone of contention between Norway and Denmark. Each claimed ownership; Norway annexed the eastern coast. They submitted the dispute to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague which in 1933 upheld Denmark's claim, decided that Denmark was doing "good work." Denmark has made Greenland a closed country. Its 17,000 people are scattered along the barren coasts, the centre of the island being a gigantic uninhabitable icecap. There are 3,000 Eskimos, and Denmark is determined...
...colleges have some kind of rule to regulate drinking, but last week the University of Pennsylvania decided to enforce one. Since Repeal, liquor has flowed freely in Penn's fraternity houses and four have cropped out with bars. Because 31 of the houses have been transferred to University ownership to escape taxes, they fall under a University rule which prohibits drinking on University property. This year the Interfraternity Council, at the suggestion of Penn's administration, circulated a questionnaire which revealed that not one fraternity house was dry. As the University announced last week that hereafter drinking...
...Officially admitted in the registration was ownership of the Milwaukee Sentinel, ostensibly a Paul Block property. Publisher Block leases the Sentinel from Publisher Hearst. Last week Mr. Hearst leased his Washington Herald to Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid New York Daily News. In seven years as its editor & publisher, she has seen its circulation rise from...