Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body of armed men. For perhaps all is just as it should be; the burglar merely anticipating a great social reform, the state already beginning to wither away. He should find some consolation in his first constructive step towards the socialization of the means of production, even though the ownership be but multiplied by two; and perhaps he may continue his good work if he will only be so good as to replenish his supply of hens and continue to leave the door unlocked...
President Roosevelt was aiming at "a more equitable adjustment of the principal of the [farm] debt and a reduction of interest rates which in many instances are so unconscionably high as to be contrary to a sound public policy . . . to restore to [farmers] the hope of ultimate free ownership of their own land."* To accomplish this the Federal Land Banks, under Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s Farm Credit Administration, were to issue $2,000,000,000 worth of 4% bonds, the Government guaranteeing the interest. The Land Banks were to swap these bonds for mortgages-a transaction involving little...
...have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs, not for breeding and selling, nor for hunting or house-watching, but for the idle pleasure which the ownership affords, know the pet, not as from Hell, nor yet as Rin-Tin-Tin, but in the full measure of what it is worth. If you would beat and kick your wife, and yet have her love you and fawn upon you, said William Wycherley, get a bitch...
...Boston Athenaeum with its 300,000 volumes is the world's largest library whose stacks are open to its readers. Founded by Boston merchants, its ownership is vested in 1,049 shares, currently priced at $400 and quoted every Thursday among unlisted securities. By buying a share you become a "Proprietor" and may roam at will through the dingy-faced, bronze-doored building at No. 10 1/2 Beacon Street, across from the Bellevue Hotel and in front of old Granary burying ground. The Athenaeum's interior was remodeled in 1913 but it is still mellow, musty. Its most...
...common stock. These holdings have been pledged with the R. F. C. as collateral on a loan to Illinois Central. President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central said the receivership did not affect his company "in the least. . . . Our only interest in the sityation is the ownership of about $20,000.000 face value of the common stock." Central of Georgia was the eighth railroad to go into receivership since...