Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee hearings in Albany, Utilitarian Carlisle last week hopped to a microphone to reply to Governor Lehman's appeal for support. Mr. Carlisle attacked the Constitutionality of the 5% emergency rate bill, defended the holding company and challenged, as all good power men do, the economics of municipal ownership. As an alternative he pleaded for an amendment requiring a municipality to take over existing properties if the citizens insisted on public ownership. The Governor, however, would rather see his bill killed than have it saddled with an amendment which would throw the purchase price of the properties into...
...Ownership of Canadian National is represented by a single share of stock registered in the name of George V and deposited in Ottawa. His Majesty's investment is a notoriously poor one. Last year C. N. R. operated at a $52,000,000 deficit...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is "one of the three or four men of real stature in the Cabinet." and fast-ripening Presidential timber. Observer thinks Rexford Guy Tugwell "a genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...
...numbered, does not fully realize them. He will be attacked by the intelligent members of the group which now owns our instruments of production and distribution, because his legislation cannot but act against their fundamental interests. He will be attacked by those who are fighting for the public ownership of industry, because his plan of a control without ownership is clearly a plan that cannot succeed except through the reactionary dictatorship of fascism. And he will be attacked, ever more and more, by the liberals who believe in his ends, as they realize the futility of the means which...