Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to remark that the representatives in the Senate of those same states could, by filibustering, block any judicial appointment he might make, or, for that matter, any law. In other words, he is not so worried about democratic majority rule as he is about his own immediate control. His real complaint is that he can't whip states into lines as easily as the might the gentlemen of the Senate...
Dashing away from a public meeting in Boston, where he had pointed out the need for federal control to insure the security of our agricultural and industrial institutions, the ex-Governor of New Hampshire emphasized the opportunities which await college graduates in the field of government...
Security, as defined by Mr. Winant, is a sum of arrangements set up by society in order that those things which we cherish might be safeguarded against the forces over which we have no control. It is, then, in the picture of our everyday life. "Most people, because of the limitations of economic hazards, could not step out from their narrow sphere of life, so pressing were the obligations of the home. If we insure a man of a more reasonable tenure of office, then we shall get an increase in pride of public service...
...cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later formed a higher and bigger holding company. Central States Electric, which eventually got working control of Great North American Co. (TIME...
...goes a little faster than the one underneath." Phenomenal indeed was Mr. Williams' observance of this principle. By 1924 he had spent $2,072,000 to increase his holdings to 104,671 of Central States' 109,038 outstanding common shares, a 96% interest and complete voting control. As shares in the utilities at the base of his pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between...