Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sudan was entirely reserved to Britain, and her garrisons remained quartered throughout Egypt. It was actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept...
...roads estimated that the law was costing them $1,000,000 per year, started court action to have its enforcement restrained. In due time a U. S. District Court gave ear to their plea, finding the law useless except as a "make-work" measure and interfering with national control of interstate commerce...
Scrupulous was Chairman Sloan to confine his soundoff on Labor's '"irrespons-bility" to the United Automobile Workers, not ringing in John L. Lewis, who has as little control over the U. A. W. as the U. A. W. has over its enthusiastic members. Careful was Mr. Sloan to qualify discussion of the Right to Work with a pertinent phrase about when "work is available." But in the thunderous vein he likes so well to employ, Chairman Sloan warned...
...perfectly evident that what has happened was occasioned through inability on the part of the union leadership involved to control their own followers...
...Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start...