Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian provinces, "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice...
...past few months, there is a certain class in the country which President Theodore Roosevelt once referred to as the "lunatic fringe". These slightly unbalanced citizens are not in themselves dangerous, but when gathered behind the standard of such crack-pots as Representative William Lemke, or under the control of vicious demagogues such as Coughlin, Hearst or the late Huey Long, they constitute a serious menace to both law and order and decent government in the United States...
Williams J. English Jr. '37, has been chosen by Aldrich Durant, 02, Business Manager of the University, to be director of the enterprise and will act as agent for the College in the operation of the lot. Ownership, the payment of taxes, and ultimate control of the space still resides in Lehman Hall however...
...giro is the product of many extraordinary recent improvements on the bastard airplane with rotors whose crude ancestor Inventor Juan de la Cierva first made hover in the air 13 years ago. The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance in the air. By a simple clutch, he can apply power...
...utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man might become a mere figurehead. Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining only as a director. In his place, not as president but as general manager, the company...