Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
...Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
Having polished off the power men, Mr. Landis turned to the course of Recovery and its control, challenging "those in control of industry and finance" thus: "You cannot forget that the last recovery was your recovery and that it almost destroyed you. Fairly or unfairly, you became the scapegoats of a bewildered and discouraged people. This new recovery, certainly in its early stages, will also be your recovery. Its responsibilities are now yours. How long you will discharge them is your first concern. ... If the mandate of last November means to us that we must not fail, more clearly does...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...
With no other investment except their native resourcefulness, the railroading brothers were in a position to stage what might have been the most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...