Word: investment
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Socialists demand the whole product of labor, and the right to work on wages. It is admitted that the present distribution of wealth is wrong, but municipal control would do nothing to change this evil. Citizens would be forced to invest money drawn from them by taxation in this public venture, without realizing any interest on their investment for several years...
...chief revision made by the subcommittee of the House Committee is to centre the power, hitherto too comprehensive for such a body, in the hands of a new Governing Board, and to invest the duties of the now abolished Membership Committee in the House Committee. This board shall have all powers not especially assigned to the house or the library committees. The meeting unanimously voted to accept the proposed changes provisionally...
...which, he said, though not of brilliant appearance, embodied an important practical and scientific work describing the German social system. The prominent features of this system are the admirable hygienic precautions, and the system of workmen's insurance which compels every employee receiving less than a stipulated wage to invest in insurance and pensions for himself and family a certain fraction of his yearly earnings. The motto of the German code is "Love your brethren;" and for that reason it is proper that the embodiment of the German ideas should be placed in the Harvard Museum of Social Ethics...
...continues, as it may reasonably be expected to, the Stadium debt can be paid in three years; after that, Soldiers Field can be very rapidly improved from the surplus of the next few years. The time is not many years off when the Association will again have money to invest if the surplus continues to accrue. Some contingency like the sudden decline of football might take away the athletic profits. But football seems in no immediate danger of collapse. If it should, then would be the time to take up subscriptions...
...solve the Porto Rican question must provide for the introduction of capital and the resulting commercial development. To place Porto Rico within our customs boundary is the very policy which meets this requirement. It is the only measure which guarantees permanent economic conditions, without which capitalists will never invest. Second, it provides that the capital attracted to the island shall be American, and that Porto Rico shall be developed along American lines...