Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...
...make a full and complete study and investigation ... of the concentration of economic power in and financial control over production and distribution of goods and services...
...State machine of his colleague Senator Clyde Herring and Governor Nelson G. Kraschel, backed also by Catholics, the A.F of L. and reputedly by Boss Jim Farley, stormed up & down the State denouncing "this gang of political termites . . . boring from within . . . planning on taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred to his vote against the President...
...Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta*is in the transition stage. It became technically autonomous last year when it was eased from the control of French mandated Syria. This week, the Sanjak's 220,000 inhabitants will go to the polls, in an election conducted by the League of Nations, to vote themselves a legislature. The predominant nationality of the legislature will profoundly influence the Sanjak's destiny. That this destiny was important to its neighbors as well as . the Sanjak, was plain last week. Turkish soldiers were reported concentrating on the northern border and French Foreign Legionnaires enforced martial...
Forest. As Mr. Rice showed it, Alcoa's management ever since the company was founded in 1888 as Pittsburgh Reduction Co. has been dominated by one idea: to control every last sale of aluminum in the U. S. Its success, claimed the prosecutor, is indicated by the fact that a $100 share in the company in 1890 has by now yielded a par value of $8,760, that some $100,000,000 has been paid in cash dividends in the past 48 years, that Alcoa admittedly controls 100% of the virgin aluminum production in the U. S., that everyone...