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Word: proprietorship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, the Board accepted a statement presented to it by President Ernest Martin Hopkins, which contained a discussion of the proprietorship question, and which concluded with the recommendation that the struggle be delegated for decision to a group headed by an impartial chairman. It would include appointees from the college administration and from the publication under firs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DARTMOUTH" GAG WILL BE MEDIATED | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...star under which Robert Hayes Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Just What You Expect | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...present the Voliva organization is divided for convenience into four groups, the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, the educational institutes, the industries, the real estate. He maintains sole proprietorship over his enterprises and refuses to incorporate although the Government wishes him to do so. The Church, he claims, is worth $1,250,000. It is supported by tithes and offerings from Zion City employes, of whose earnings strict record is kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits of a Prophet | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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