Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
...Missouri, the Stark-Clark feud boiled up toward Hatfield-McCoy temperature. Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, New Deal 1940 candidate for Senator, and present Senator Bennett Champ Clark began active electioneering for control of the Missouri delegation to the 1940 Democratic convention...
...Berlin, the vanishing of private business under totalitarian control is reflected by the index of the Bourse, which last week stood at 47-6, previous week 47.7, same week last year...
...book value of its common stock from $75,000,000 to $25,000,000 (thus keeping the total capitalization unchanged); 2) that Continental would buy back its preferred from RFC at least $250,000 every six months; 3) that until the preferred was retired RFC should have voting control of the bank; 4) that all directors had to be approved by RFC. The most important result of the deal was that Jesse Jones's good friend Walter Joseph Cummings was made chairman of the board, salary $75,000 a year...
Victory for the trusts, profiteering from the Civil War, land-grabbing, fancy promotion schemes enabled a host of new millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...