Caribbean Land Tenure SymposiumCaribbean Research Council. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, Fisheries, and Forestry, Caribbean Commission Caribbean Commission, 1946 - 377 pages |
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Page 78 - ... and this provision shall be held to prevent any member of a corporation engaged in agriculture from being in any wise interested in any other corporation engaged in agriculture.
Page 8 - A treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is not an end in itself but only a means to an end.
Page 231 - ... según el destino, productividad, ubicación y demás circunstancias del bien arrendado; para fijar el mínimo de duración de los propios contratos según dichos elementos, y para garantizar al arrendatario, colono o aparcero, una compensación razonable por el valor de las mejoras y bienhechurías que entregue en buen estado y que haya realizado a sus expensas con el consentimiento expreso o tácito del dueño, o por haberlas requerido la explotación del inmueble dado su destino.
Page 63 - Where— (a) the landlord of a holding, without good and sufficient cause, and for reasons inconsistent with good estate management...
Page 74 - No corporation shall be authorized to conduct the business of buying and selling real estate or be permitted to hold or own real estate except such as may be reasonably necessary to enable it to carry out the purposes for which it...
Page 79 - ... of their own people an error has been made in refusing to grant sufficiently liberal terms to induce the investment of American capital in the Philippines and in Porto Rico. Elsewhere in this message I have spoken strongly against the jealousy of mere wealth, and especially of corporate wealth as such. But it is particularly regrettable to allow any such jealousy to be developed when we are dealing either with our insular or with foreign affairs. The big corporation has achieved its present position...
Page 178 - The Governments of France and of the Netherlands have accepted an invitation extended to them by the Governments of the United Kingdom and United States of America to join the AngloAmerican Caribbean Commission. The name of the Commission will be changed appropriately ..." The Commission is now known as the Caribbean Commission. The Caribbean Research Council was established by the Commission in August, 1943, to survey needs, to determine what research has been done, to facilitate research on a cooperative...
Page 178 - For the purpose of encouraging and strengthening social and economic cooperation between the United States of America and its possessions and bases in the area known geographically as the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom and the British colonies in the same area, and to avoid unnecessary duplication of research in these fields, a Commission, to be known as the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, has been jointly created by the two Governments.
Page 79 - I wish to call the attention of the congress to one question which affects our insular possessions generally; namely, the need of an increased liberality in the treatment of the whole franchise question in these islands. In the proper desire to prevent the islands being exploited by speculators and to have them develop In the...
Page 178 - The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission was created by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom on March 9, 1942, for the purpose of encouraging and strengthening social and economic cooperation between the United States of America and its possessions and bases in the area known geographically and politically as the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom and the British colonies in the same area, and to avoid duplication of research in these fields.