Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations was the San Bernardino Auditorium which served as an improvised shelter...
...Dictator, among other things granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew it was his way of helping Rome tell President Wilson they were "powerless" to control this great Italian patriot. Eventually D'Annunzio, after an Italian warship had duly popped a few projectiles into Fiume, surrendered it to his native country and strutted home to be created a Prince, almost suffocated with adulation...
Death ended his control of more daily newspapers than any other man in the U. S. (Scripps-Howard chain of 24 dailies*), the second largest press association (United Press), two of the greatest newspaper syndicates (United Feature and N.E.A.), one of the leading news picture services (Acme), and three minor radio stations-a journalistic kingdom worth well over...
...Edward Wyllis Scripps who founded the Cleveland Press. E. W. Scripps had three sons. One of them, John P. Scripps, died at 26, but not before he had sired John P. Jr. who now publishes four papers in California. Another, James George Scripps, who died at 34, was given control of the Scripps papers in the Northwest, now known as the Scripps League, which are run by his sons. The third and youngest of E. W.'s sons was Robert who died last week...
...full report, not yet published. Unappeased, Professor Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill, it appeared that the battle over Federal aid had merely been shifted to Washington...