Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grandfather Medill left control of the Tribune in a Medill trust, whose beneficiaries are Publisher McCormick and his brother Medill's relict, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; Publisher Patterson and his sister Eleanor, the famed "Cissy" Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald. The two men are the trustee-managers. They bossed the Tribune jointly until 1925 when Partner Patterson moved East to run the New York News, which they had founded six years before. Having experienced a considerable clash of temperaments in their Chicago years, the partner-cousins soon formed a sensible working agreement: Publisher McCormick...
Alumni: "In this country that strange phenomenon known as the alumni plays a weird and oftentimes a terrifying role. It is very odd, when you come to think of it, that people who have been the beneficiaries of an institution should think that they should control it, and for that very reason...
...Trustees are in a different category from alumni. They at least have the undoubted legal right to control the institution. . . . But a university that is run by its trustees will be badly run. How can it be otherwise? Ordinarily the trustees are not educators; usually they are nonresident. If they are alumni, they must overcome the vices inherent in that interesting group. If of their own motion they take an education problem in hand, they can decide rightly only by accident...
Soon as Dr. Lahey recognizes the approach of thyroid crisis in a patient he takes "combative measures not only toward control of hyperthyroidism by iodine, rest and sedatives, but also toward protection of the liver by the continuous intravenous injection of fluids and large amounts of glucose. The result is that our clinical experience has been much more gratifying. It has even been possible in many cases not only to extricate the patients from a thyroid crisis, but to operate upon them after a period of preparation of two to three weeks with a very reasonable mortality rate...
...graphic imagination of a member of the press quickly recognized this easy symbol as some one drowning at the sinking of the "Lusitania". At the right of the door an armored fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword shows the threat of destruction by those who control the power of the Ring. No one has so far come forward with the Nazi parallel for this symbol...