Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also suggested that control of the fund be shifted from the Treasury to a "trusteeship" composed of the chairman of the Social Security Board and the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury...
Mehrer (Aggrandizer) Adolf Hitler was busy all last week adding lands, riches and resources to his steadily growing Third Reich. Since he seized Czechoslovakia fortnight ago, the Mehrer has so enlarged his military and economic empire that at week's end he had effective control of Europe from the Baltic to the Rhine and from the North to the Black...
Hungarian troops and planes invaded Slovakia. Immediate objective was the important Ung Valley railroad connecting Hungary with Poland. Hungary's larger ambition is eventually to gain control of all Slovakia, which used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Adolf Hitler, having just assumed a 25-year responsibility for Slovak territory, hurried back from Memel. At week's end, it seemed that Hungary would get the railroad, but nothing more...
...States to have access to its list of investment certificate holders. Next they set up a company called State Guaranty Corp., peddled its preferred stock to Pacific States' certificate holders. Odell acted as fiscal agent, taking a 20% commission on these sales, thus getting enough money to purchase control of State Guaranty's common stock. And with the money it raised State Guaranty bought up all the capital stock of Pacific States...
...more than a year Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. has been smoothly squelching Financier Robert Young in a spectacular battle for control of the rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. (TIME, April 25 et seq.). Robert Young controlled the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of the oldtime Van Sweringen railroad domain. But Guaranty was trustee for three Alleghany bond issues under an indenture which specified that whenever the collateral (including Alleghany's C. & O. holdings) behind them fell below 150% of their face value, the bank could impound it. When the collateral so fell, the bank impounded...