Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Published last month by the Yale University Press was the first full-dress critical study of The Comptroller General by Assistant Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Yale. Conclusions: that the Comptroller has become a law unto himself, imposed "nearly intolerable" conditions on operating establishments under his control, that his status and duties should be reconsidered by Congress...
...control and modify abnormal behavior, extensive knowledge concerning the bases for temperamental differences is required. Why does one child have a temper tantrum when in the same situation another child remains composed? . . . Why does Miss Jones embarrass her instructor with an hysterical outbreak [on] receiving a poor grade, whereas Miss Smith accepts failure all too philosophically...
...Foundation has set aside $100.000 for gambiae control in Brazil, and Foundation workers have already learned all the habits of the enemy. Gambiae are "domesticated insects." They breed prolifically, mature within eight days, frequent stagnant, sunlit puddles, prefer to nip their human victims indoors. In the infested parts of Brazil an anti-gambiae corps backed by the Rockefeller Foundation is being rushed into action...
...ardent yachtsman like his idol, J. P. Morgan Sr., Pliny Fisk in 1919 visited Tangier on his 33-ft. Riviera. He always believed afterwards that it was there he caught sleeping sickness. He eventually recovered, but not before he "lost control of things." He quit Harvey Fisk & Sons, sold his Exchange seat for $55,000. Faulty judgment slowly took his millions. In 1924 he sold the Riviera and his $500,000 house in Rye. He dropped out of his clubs-the Union League, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht...
...less publicized public relations problem which Johns-Manville has solved is the fact that it is a "Morgan Company." Twelve years ago when the Manvilles sold control to J. P. Morgan, J-M's employes felt they had been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example...