Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish economist pointed out the advantages of a benevolent state that subsidized large families. He cited Sweden as an example of the successful application of government supervised birth control...
WASHINGTON--Chairman Jesse-Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation today bluntly told the nation's bankers that they have been neither wise nor energetic in meeting the credit needs of the country and warned that government control of banking is a "live" subject. Addressing a round-table gathering at the annual Chamber of Commerce of the United States Convention, Jones reminded the bankers that there's is a franchise that carries responsibility and "not merely a privilege...
...they did so 3,175,000 shares (41%) strong, said to be the largest number of stockholders by person or proxy at any meeting in C. & O. history. Since Chesapeake Corp. has only a 35% interest, Robert Young felt pretty sure last week that even if he loses his control through the holding companies, the present officers of C. & O. will keep their jobs...
These were speedily confirmed as Lawyer Arthur Ballantine. trustee for an investment trust named Continental Securities Corp. now in a 776 reorganization, charged through his counsel that a group of unnamed Canadians had bought a controlling interest in the trust last October for approximately $50,000 when its portfolio held securities worth some $3,300.000, and that Continental has since been looted so thoroughly that only $20,000 in marketable securities are left. In the process Continental acquired control of an investment trust named Reynolds Investing Co., which is now being investigated by SEC. Brokerage transactions for both were handled...
While the decision itself is an example of Government control of transportation, the Commission's reason for making it harks back to Adam Smith. The report pointed out that California is an area where millions travel by private automobile; that if only 7% to 8% of the motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...