Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day the President made a prime appointment: Joseph Bartlett Eastman, squash-playing bachelor who believes in Government-ownership of railroads, to tie Coordinator under the Railroad Emergency Act. Retiring from the Interstate Commerce Commission, Coordinator Eastman will try to help the roads reduce wasteful duplications of service...
...time of the Hahn-Duveen trial, the Hahn portrait's ownership had already been traced back to the same General Tourton, banker for the Revolutionary Government...
...obligation to follow the compulsion of the facts is inescapable." It was hard for the author, as one can readily believe from his earlier writings, to come to the decision that parliamentary institutions are doomed to be discarded when the final question of the public or private ownership of property is brought to the test. The choice, he points out, lies squarely between a Fascist or a Communist seizure of authority...
...Social Service Committee had brought in a report to the Eastern New York division of the Methodist Church urging government ownership of natural resources, railroads, banks, steel, cotton and woolen mills. Said the report: "We must of necessity face frankly the fact that Capitalism is un-Christian and unethical, and then consider ways and means of replacing it." To this end, churchmen, were urged to take up politics...
...Medalie uses the story of the Morgan loans for a quite different purpose. If, says he, if the husband-to-wife sale had been a real sale, Mr. Mitchell would have notified J. P. Morgan & Co. of the changed ownership of the collateral for his loan. Mr. Mitchell did not so notify the House of Morgan...