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Word: ownerships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland newsmen by long distance from Muncie and announced: "Messrs. Robert R. Young and Allan P. Kirby and their associates have surrendered to the foundation the 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock held as collateral for their $2,375,000 note, thus revesting to the foundation ownership of such stock." Muncie's spare, bald, 76-year-old George A. Ball was once again master of the 23,000 miles of right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Four Short Years | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public ownership of railroads and coal mines, which was downright mutiny in 1890, has gradually come into popular favor. Hays predicts that "more and more the income of the citizen will be taken by the state and used for social purposes...

Author: By L. L., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...solution to the problem comes under two heads. The first of these is the long-run, permanent solution. Sometime in the near future, Harvard must institute detailed supervision of tutoring schools. These may still remain under private ownership and operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLUTION | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...Extended its attack on the Giannini interests by seeking a permanent injunction to restrain Timetrust, Inc. from further sale of certificates representing ownership in various Giannini banks. About $1,600,000 in such certificates is outstanding. SEC charged that they are a means of "obtaining money ... by means of untrue statements" such as that their purchase is similar to starting a savings account. Timetrust's President Meredith Parker retorted that SEC was using "unlawful and unwarranted tactics" to embarrass the Giannini family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Drenching | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landmarks | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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