I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trusts, but I think it is perfectly clear that invention in many fields has been discouraged, that inventors have been prevented from reaping the full fruits of their ingenuity and industry,... Other People's Money: And how the Bankers Use it - Page 151by Louis Dembitz Brandeis - 1914 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
| Woodrow Wilson, William Bayard Hale - United States - 1913 - 314 pages
...could have been happy even without moving-pictures. Of course, I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trusts, but I think...deprived of many comforts and conveniences, as well as of the opportunity of buying at lower prices. The damper put on the inventive genius of America by... | |
| American literature - 1913 - 836 pages
...moving-pictures. Of course, I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trusts, but 1 think it is perfectly clear that invention in many...deprived of many comforts and conveniences, as well as of the opportunity of buying at lower prices. The damper put on the inventive genius of America by... | |
| 1914 - 620 pages
...drawn by President Wilson: I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trnsts, but I think it is perfectly clear that invention in...well as the opportunity of buying at lower prices. It is my firm belief that monopoly does not secure economy of production, and the authorities qnoted... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - Presidents - 1919 - 266 pages
...our economic society, the organization of our life. OF course I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trusts, but I think...deprived of many comforts and conveniences, as well as of the opportunity of buying at lower prices. I MET a man the other day who thought that the referendum... | |
| Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1923 - 1042 pages
...the following quotation from ex-President Wilson: I am not saying that all invention had been stgpped by the growth of trusts, but I think it is perfectly...conveniences, as well as the opportunity of buying at lower price*. Then Mr. Brandeis continues: The fact that industrial monopolies arrest development is more... | |
| Carl Dean Thompson - Government ownership - 1925 - 520 pages
...made by European inventors and manufacturers.' "To which President Wilson's statement mav be added: growth of trusts, but I think it is perfectly clear...well as the opportunity of buying at lower prices.' " " And finally if it be assumed that the incentive to gain is the chief stimulant of human effort,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1929 - 80 pages
...without moving pictures. Of course, I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the srowth of trusts, but I think it is perfectly clear that invention in many fields lias been discouraged, that inventors have been prevented from reaping the full fruits of their ingenuity... | |
| Charles R. Geisst - Business & Economics - 1997 - 420 pages
...collect their existing revenues. Wilson concluded by noting, "I am not saying that all invention has been stopped by the growth of trusts but I think it...that invention in many fields has been discouraged." 1 American industry was going through one of its first consolidation phases, and the trend clearly... | |
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