Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously with Life's sale, its publishers last week told its readers that henceforth they would get Judge instead of Life. With the circulation of the oldest funsheet in the U. S. thus doubled, Judge, control of which last week passed to new and unknown owners, set out to woo Life's old contributors and advertisers, make Life's old subscribers feel as much at home as possible...
...politician will have to think up a new idea before he can get his hands on this money." Reason Banker Nichols can do anything he likes at his bank to make headlines is that he inherited 60% of its 2,000 shares from his father, who got control of the institution 33 years ago. At the bank, "100%" Nichols has a private office but spends most of his time at a desk in the lobby where he can watch people come and go. He travels to work in a Duesenberg, which he likes to drive fast, piling...
...there are two or more ladies present." This not only answers the old riddle, "When is a lady not a lady?" (Answer: "When she's a chaperone"), but flings a challenging glove into the ladies' very teeth, Females have never treated with much respect man-made rules intended to control their activities. Mark our words, until this restriction is removed, there'll be breaking and entering on the part of single, defiant misses, till the students scream for help. Far-sighted, clear-eyed youth--no wonder they are opposed to the new rule! Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Indeed the principle of the agreements threatens one of the salient points of the American constitutional scheme, for its takes from Congress the power to control tariff matters and gives it over to the whims of the executive branch. As Mr. Hull's treaties were published one by one, people whose interests had been vitally affected found themselves pushed out the door, denied hearings, and treated generally like unruly schoolboys if they voiced legitimate protests. Such dictatorial tactics may be acceptable in times of emergency but should never be allowed to get a foothold in the long-run system...
...requirement for the bachelor's degree. . . . We shall require, in each of the first three years, a course in the political, economic, or social structure of American society . . leading up to the study in senior year of the problems of American government and the means of social control...