Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant and $22,500,000 endowment, was urged to lead the South out of. its educational wilderness. The University owes its eminence to Oliver Carmichael's predecessor, old James Hampton Kirkland (TIME, June 21, et ante), who in his 44 years as chancellor wrested control of the institution from the Methodist Church, raised its scholastic standards, boosted its endowment from slightly more than $1,000,000 to $22,500,000. Nearly all the endowment and plant came from three igth-Century industrial Titans-$4,000,000 was Vanderbilt money, $18,500,000 Rockefeller money, $2,790,000 Carnegie money...
...which he needs to propagandize for Dr. Parran's program, he already had collected $102,000. Senator Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of North Carolina urged Congress to appropriate $271,000,000 towards a 13-year campaign for prevention, treatment, control of venereal disease...
...Harvard's School of Public Health organized a post-graduate course on venereal disease control for health officers and private practitioners. New York University next week begins a similar postgraduate course...
...Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 provided that all utility holding companies must register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden to use the mails and the facilities of interstate commerce if they did not. SEC would then have the power to control their financial and security transactions and, under the "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Many utility holding companies not only refused to register but declared they would get injunctions against the whole Act. SEC then agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought...
...these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United's "ripes" in New Orleans. By 1930 United was glad to buy out his plantations and fleet for 300,000 shares of United...