Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week's end, three Philippine Army planes flew from Manila, scouted the Davao area. Most correspondents concluded from official silence that nobody could find a war fleet, that the jittery customs officer had seen...
...votes cast was so small that it was virtually ignored by the public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
Jarecki v. Prystalski In the struggle for State control, the Kelly-Nash machine's greatest asset for the last five years has been its ability to deliver the Cook County vote practically intact. Cook County election machinery is in charge of its county judge, who for the last 16 years has been a nervous-looking gentleman of Polish extraction named Edmund K. Jarecki. Despite his invaluable assistance in years past, Messrs. Kelly and Nash this year found that internal considerations made it advisable to drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named...
Said Colgate University's Sociologist Norman E. Himes: "Though birth control is now accepted in principle by the majority of the American people . . . our 400 clinics reach only a small proportion of the population. . . . Present reproductive trends point to a possible decline in the intelligence of the American people. . . . America urgently needs a biological plan...
...long fingers of J. P. Morgan reach into too many crannies for the public good; SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas argues that major financing programs should always be subject to competitive bidding. Last week all three of these themes ran through the complicated story of a battle for control of rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...