Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join the twenty-seven ratifiers of the child labor amendment seems sure now that the church leaders and other prominent persons have sharpened their objections. Just as anxious as anybody to keep youth out of the sweatshops, they are afraid that Congress given the power to "regulate, limit, and control the labor of children under eighteen" will regiment them on fascist lines. Yet time has failed to flush any dark lots lurking behind the measure. Knocked about state legislatures for thirteen years, it has no continuous and cohesive political backing, nor can the the welfare agencies that push it along...
...witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...
...into effect there is the best ever. Soon as a patient is admitted he receives physical and mental examination. If he has some "intercurrent defect," such as tuberculosis, which induces him to take drugs, he is put into an infirmary for special treatment. Soon as the defect is under control, the patient is deprived of his habitual drug supply. Dr. Kolb seldom uses "reduction treatment," i. e., diminishing doses of the drug to which the patient has been addicted. When Dr. Kolb tapers off a patient, he does so rapidly. "Cold turkey" produces better results. By this method, the patient...
...shares of $1 non-cumulative 5% stock created especially for him. Cities Service common has one-twentieth of a vote per share. Mr. Doherty's new stock had one vote per share. His voting power was thus increased from about 6% to 30%-un-questioned control of the company. At the trial which began last month in Manhattan, Mr. Doherty's attorneys, John W. Davis and Joseph M. Proskauer, declared that "no decent and no proper motive" moved Cities Service's plaintiff stockholders. Mr. Doherty, they said, had been induced to sell the 200,000 shares...
When the Head overreached himself by abolishing the school's most cherished holiday, it was all Mr. Donkin could do to control his muttering minions. It was more than he could do when his feminine wards took a hand in the revolt. Triumphantly the Head proclaimed a check mate; sadly Mr. Donkin acknowledged it. prepared to quit the field like a man. At the last moment, by literary chicanery worthy of P. G. Wodehouse, the day was saved for everyone concerned...