Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board can limit the voting power of all foreign-owned stock to 20%. This provision is in keeping with the reasoning which prompted President Wilson, assisted by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to call on U. S. companies to form Radio Corp. in 1919 to keep ownership of the Alexanderson Alternator and other important radio patents within...
...University has acted wisely in taking possession of this property when the occasion for getting it reasonably presented itself. The land next to Dunster will probably always remain a playground. While the purchase appears on the surface uneconomical, in reality it is sane move in the consolidation of Harvard ownership of all the land along the focal point of house locations...
...land became known late Wednesday afternoon, when a deed to a piece of land between Gore and McKinlock Halls was recorded with the Middlesex South District Deeds, dated November 23, and being numbered 137 of that date. This latest addition to the University's land holdings completes Harvard ownership of all land along the nothern side of Memorial Drive from Eliot House to the Cambridge Electric Light Company, with the exception of a public playground between Dunster House and the Maintenance Department location...
Last week came the explosion, with a loud bang. Mr. Cord, who had increased his ownership of Avco stock to 30% was now openly clamoring for control of the company. He charged the present management with the loss of $38,000,000 in three years through "extravagance, waste, speculation, shrinkage of properties, cancellation of officers' debts.'' For whatever economies the company effected since April, he claimed full credit. He accused the "reigning clique" of transacting all important business in "secret meetings" unknown to him, the biggest single stockholder: of plotting to perpetuate its own regime for another...
...attendant. "No, radio," replied Mrs. Derby. Thereupon she tuned in the attendant's set, heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry you don't merely marry your wife but her family as well." The speaker was Mrs. Derby's older brother Theodore...