Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During its 1928 investigation of the propaganda activities of public utility companies, the Federal Trade Commission discovered that some enterprising utilitarians had been giving fat sums of money to professors and institutions of learning for lectures and reports praising private ownership of utilities and discouraging government ownership (TIME, July 16, 1928). In some instances the utilitarians even got their case written into school textbooks. Last week the American Association of University Professors took an official stand on such matters by issuing a report from its Committee on Ethics, prepared by Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia...
Last week the question of future Hearst ownership was partially answered by the announcement of the financing plan of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., incorporated last month in Delaware with capital stock of $150,000,000 in 6,000,000 shares. The stock is to be offered to Hearst employes at $24 per share. The extent of the privilege to buy will be based upon salary; ranging from 10 shares for those earning up to $1,500 yearly, to a maximum of 2,000 shares for $50,000- (or more)-per-year men. The stock has par value...
...that Columbia Graphophone, Ltd. would rid itself of Columbia Phonograph Co., probably by sale to some cinema company, to be able to merge with Gramophone. Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone to get rid of its U. S. Columbia Phonograph lest the indirect consolidation of Columbia Phonograph with Victor Talking Machine arouse U. S. anti-trust action...
...evidence recommended his disbarment to the Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph announced himself as a candidate for Governor, made a stormy campaign on the very issue before the court. He made much of his birth in a California log cabin, flayed the 10? fare charged on Portland trolleys, demanded public ownership of public utilities. His chief opposition came from the Portland Oregonian. He won the gubernatorial nomination by 5,000 votes, which he considered cleared him of all opprobrium, regardless of what the Supreme Court did to him. Permanently disbarred with him last week was Mr. Mannix. Nominee Joseph...
Discussed was Professor Roland McMillan Harper's striking discovery that there is a definite correlation between the ownership of motor cars and the prevalence of divorce. Professor Harper, geographer, now research professor of economics at the University of Georgia, adduced as proof that, in the U. S., wealth, motor cars and divorces have all increased in recent years faster than the population, and that they all are more prevalent in cities than in country districts...