Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting to link a couplet with one preceding. In the next group of sentences, which I can compesitely number (5), the satirist temporarily abandons satire for a hurried description of municipal squalor. The passage is undigested and out of control. The professional coupleteer such as Gay or Churchill does not pamper his polemic with unadulterated description. Sentence (6) impulsively reassumes a satirical tone, but inasmuch as the preceding description has not been made convincingly inhuman enough, Hillyer's conclusion has a fatuous unearned air, lacking inevitability. The final line projects...
...Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways of his late father, opens a gilded saloon, maneuvers away from Political Boss Gil Warren (Brian Donlevy) his treacle-toned lady, Belle Fawcett (Alice Faye), and his control of votes in the Patch. When these votes elect honest Brother Jack mayor, Dion expects to have things all his own way. Just after he discovers that Jack is a seagreen incorruptible, Daisy kicks the lantern over...
...York have been kept in operation in recent years only by loans totaling $16.582.000 from Reconstruction Finance Corp. Both lines are part of the old Van Sweringen system and ! last month they b came even more closely related when the Interstate Commerce Commission permitted C. & O. to take direct control of the Erie by acquiring the 50% of Erie stock held by C. & 0. owned Virginia Transportation Corp. and Alleghany Corp. But, as was proved last week, formal adoption by a rich uncle did not put a silver spoon into Erie's mouth...
...still in control and the Erie with much less fixed charges." This would seem a singularly hazardous C. & O. gamble, for only last month an ICC examiner reported on an insolvent line (Chicago & Eastern Illinois) in which C. & O. has an $8.000.000 interest. He held that C. & E. I. stock was worthless; the ICC might do the same for Erie in like circumstances...
...interested in protecting the Erie as they are the Alleghany Corp.. which receives a large part of C. & 0. dividends, their course might be different.'' Admitting that he would "not punish" the Erie if it were "independent," and questioning the right of C. & O. to control the Erie without helping it financially, he wound up: "It is a matter for the court-the juvenile court...