Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance-Writer Hugh Farrell. The German chemical "invasion" of U. S. territory took the form of the incorporation of American I. G. Chemical Corp. as a Delaware affiliate of I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Frankfort, commonly known as I. G. Dyes and loosely referred to as the German Dye Trust. When Chemist Carl Bosch, I. G. Dyes' president and Dr. Karl Düysberg, its Chairman, came to U. S. shores (TIME, April 1), only Vonly, the astute observer, suspected the object of their visit. And when, last week, the U. S. affiliate, with a distinguished German-American directorate, announced...
...officials emphatically denied that any such split up was under consideration. Also, with momentous significance, these officials called attention to President Walter S. Gifford's 1928 report. In this report, President Gifford said: "The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. accepts its responsibility for nationwide telephone service as a public trust. Its duty is to provide the American public with . . . service at a reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming...
...Michigan Christian Advocate, denouncing the methods by which the tobacco trust is coining the blood of babies into dividends, says, 'The trust has overstepped itself in its greed.' The Advocate will find in the ranks of its allies thousands who are decidedly against baby-killing."?Bulletin of The Methodist Board of Morals...
...this Island commodity, he said, would be a "betrayal of trust by the U. S. toward a dependent people." He argued that Philippine sugar, less than one-fifth of U. S. consumption, does not affect the domestic market, that the attempt to limit Philippine sugar came not from the U. S. beet-sugar industry but "directly from those interests which have invested in Cuban sugar." He denied that domestic sugar interests could increase their production if importation from the Philippines were restricted...
Growing newspaper chains (threatening death to oldtime, flavorful individualistic journalism),and further penetration of the so-called power trust into newspaper ownership or control (threatening death to the Freedom of the Press) were the headline subjects at the seventh annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington last week. Few important U. S. newspaper editors are their own masters nowadays. Nevertheless, what they say illuminates the consensus of newspaper opinion. ¶ Editor Willis John Abbot (Christian Science Monitor) asked that the society inquire into the activities of the power trust with reference to newspaper ownership...