Word: control
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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READINGS IN PUBLIC OPINION : Its Formation and Control-Edited by W. Brooke Graves, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science in Temple University-Appleton...
...McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
Early in 1928, Manufacturers' Trust, which had gained control of the 116-year-old Bank of America, sold control to the A. P. Giannini interests, giving A. P. Giannini a Wall Street foothold. On Oct. 1, 1928, Manufacturers' Trust had resources of $356,000,000; deposits...
Hardly less ancient than the House of Warburg is the House of Baker, but the Bakers have not so continuously been bankers, and the Baker bank has not remained always in Baker control. This bank-the Bank of the Manhattan Co., was organized in 1799. One of its original stockholders was Stephen Baker. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. did not remain a Baker property, but did return to the Baker family 35 years ago. J. Stewart Baker, present head, succeeded his father, Stephen Baker, grandson of Stephen the Founder...
...fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy enemies and darlings alike surround her, each one scheming deliciously to control her feminine humors...