Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Civic Auditorium before a capacity audience of 15,000 (see cut). Characteristic of the stubborn determination which has made the strike a clash of irresistible v. immovable was each debater's proclamation that his side would never yield on the strike's crucial issue-control of hiring halls. So amiable was President Lapham, a onetime Harvard debater, that Australian-born Harry Bridges later wrote him a letter declaring: "If the employers as a group will exhibit the same sportsmanship and fairness that you did, the two sides can easily get together...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
...Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted himself entirely to aviation, worked out two great improvements of his original autogiro design. One was the elimination of wings and other airplane control surfaces, making the giro controlled directly by manipulating the rotor. The other improvement, perfected this year, was the jump takeoff, whereby the giro takes off straight up into the air (TIME...
...late Carson C. Peck, vice president and treasurer of F. W. Woolworth Co. Mr. Peck died in 1915 and his son, Fremont Carson Peck, took over in 1922. Ten years later, young Publisher Peck bought the Standard Union from Chain-Publisher Paul Block. Same year Chain-Publisher Gannett relinquished control of the Eagle to a corporation headed by Millard Preston Goodfellow, an old Brooklyn...
...circulation of 84,358, its own 88,921 (as of October 1936). The Eagle's Editor Cleveland Rodgers, a onetime typesetter, is to keep his duties, while on the other side of this united publishing house the Times-Union's Editor Joseph J. Early also continues in control. An alumnus of both papers like their most famed past editor, Walt Whitman, Publisher Goodfellow will now be in general charge of all Brooklyn's home-grown daily reading matter except that provided by the Citizen (circulation...