Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time went on, hulking (6 ft. 3, 250 Ibs.) "Cap" Krug began to get into hot water. Word leaked out of an intricate financial transaction which gave Krug and his lawyer control of a Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...Take Control...
Protracted enmity toward China by the United States merely because it is Communist would deliver China even more to Russian control and would destroy the unsteady contacts this nation still has in China, Fairbank warned...
...other American industry, great or small, has forgotten that women own about 70% of the nation's wealth and control an even greater percentage of its buying. More than 90% of the country's advertising is directed at the woman . . . but postwar [motion] picture advertising has been plastered with maniacal killers, rapists, thugs of all varieties . . . The typical woman gets more than she wants of that in the news columns. She is not disposed to go to the [movies] for more of the same...