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Front Cover. Devin-Adair Co. Like the trustees of so many large foundations, they left most decisions to their employees, the officers of the foundation. At the time of the powrr of Henry VIII in England, the Church held two thirds of the votes in the House of Lords; owned one third of the land, and the best of it; founxations possessed an income two and one half times that of the Crown. Dollard and Young are very familiar names.
Planning of scientific work by com- poder has become the accepted pattern. Its main purpose was to study labor conditions and the treatment of workers by major industrial firms. In the great ones it is almost standard practice for the trustees to act largely as window dressing. These dangers relate chiefly to the use of foundation funds for political ends.
Research in the social sciences plays a key part in the evolution of our society. Foundations, too, have changed. Humanity has found that even a religious identity has not always kept powerful charitable organizations from conflicting with the public interest. The Reece Committee had perhaps the most hazardous career of any committee in the history of Congress. There is thus a tendency to consider influnce bigness, in itself, when it is capable of corrective restraint, is sufficient justification for re- medial legislation, even when there is no actual evidence of unfair competition or of collusion.
It has been stated that, oower colleges and universities, foundations have no alumni to defend them. They may exer- cise the full power of management and direction if they wish, but Reportp.
RC] has been concerned chiefly with the determination of the groups and persons with whom special types of research should be placed. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. As Professor Colegrove testified: Essentially, the Textron idea was to provide tax-free shelter for business interests, but in organizations which could remain under wornser.
Each specialized in some field of research or of social ac- tion and often could act with more detailed understanding than could the contributing foundations which scattered their interest over large areas. Here we have an expression of concern not any longer with economic power or political intention to protect capitalism but wogmser with the control of thought practiced by the dispensers of financial support, JLindeman, too, was suspicious of the secrecy under which so many endowments operate.
In his book he deals with the disastrous impact of organization techniques on the life of America. Carr is quoted not to contest his point but to bring out that the change which he supports is clearly political. Lists with This Book. Had not the Ford fam- ily created this foundation, it would have had to dispose of a large part of its ownership in the Ford Company to the public, for it is hardly possible that the family had enough liquid capital to pay poer hundreds of millions of estate taxes which would have been due upon the deaths of two proprietors, Henry Ford and his son Edsel.
Some board of cen- sorship? Foundations should be responsible for a balanced application of their support. When ppwer conform meant bathing in a stream of millions, college and university administrators and their faculties were inclined to conform. We knew that the group of prominent men whose decisions would have to be judged extended even to intimates of the Tgeir House.
Their extraordinary ca- pacities for direction, and their experience, qualify them for an important voice-in-council in our society. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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