Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to regain control in a normally Democratic city, Boss Burr Gongwer, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney and ex-Mayor Harry L. Davis, Democrats long at outs, joined in supporting City Engineer John O. McWilliams in a supreme effort to bury the hatchet in the stout neck of Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton. They managed to line up organized labor. Representative Sweeney, mindful of next year's Congressional elections, sang the theme: "The election of McWilliams will deprive Mrs. Hanna of her caviar and champagne...
...streets and in department stores; for substantial visitors from out of town to sleep shoeless in the lobbies of big hotels, or drunken on marble floors. To an Englishman used to trim and efficient bobbies, it was astonishing to see the police of a city famous for its traffic control forced to stand aside while paunchy men in blue uniforms stood at intersections imperiously directing traffic with the obvious and wholly successful purpose of tying it in knots...
...Gabriele d'Annunzio to become an Academician. In the eleven years since then Gabriele and Benito have drawn somewhat closer, d'Annunzio telegraphing to Il Duce when the Dictator was resisting Sanctions: "DO NOT SOIL YOURSELF AT THE FOUL-SMELLING SEWER IN GENEVA STOP REMAIN IMMOVABLE IN CONTROL OF YOUR PLACID HILARITY." Last week d'Annunzio agreed happily to become Ass No. 1, succeeding the late great President of the Academy, Guglielmo Marconi. European females of fashion are still invited by 74-year-old d'Annunzio to visit him in his eccentric villa on Lago...
...potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce...
...didn't know the safe amount of radiation to give the patient. Another was to prevent loss of heat in the blood. This was overcome by stepping up the motor and increasing the rate at which the blood passed through the tube. We are now able to control the speed...