Word: proprietorship
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Primitive free enterprise, said he, was irresponsible and daring. The modern variety is (or is becoming) responsible, "marked by a shift from management in the aristocratic tradition of personal proprietorship to the democratic philosophy of non-partisan administration." But the danger is that it should lose its daring. In the fear that Government will out-promise and submerge a timorous enterprise system, "thus far business has relied too fully on the negative principle, 'I want to be left alone...
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...
...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...
...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...
Today, to a greater degree than ever before, Harvard belongs to the alumni and it is more than the hackneyed spirit of loyalty to Alma Mater that binds them together. They have a sense of proprietorship in a common enterprise, an interest in seeing it develop, and a mutual feeling of obligations to each other. The admission to the "fellowship of educated men" which goes with a bachelor's degree, was once lightly referred to as advantageous chiefly in entitling a man to membership in the New York Harvard Club. Certainly one of the greatest assets in graduation, which...