Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor to be described by the League of Nations as "an international menace," then Yasha Katzenberg, 50, is an honorable man. The League so described him last year when U. S. delegates to its committee on narcotics control complained that Japan was supplying Katzenberg's agents with opium and morphine in China for smuggling into the U. S. His dope ring, built up after Repeal spoiled a fine livelihood for him, was reputed to be on a $10,000,000 scale. When Rumania threw him out this year, he was seized in Greece, extradited to the U. S. Last...
...agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into the British-dominated markets of the Near East...
Biochemist Henry Borsook of Caltech declared last week that within 100 years "neurologists will be able to control the evil in mankind on a scientific basis." In less blasphemous, more scientific language he elaborated...
...delist Transamerica stock on the charge that its registration statement contained "false and misleading statements." That all was not rosy between Banker Giannini and the New Deal was first indicated last spring when Franklin Roosevelt in his monopoly message called for "gradual separation of banks from holding com pany control." Wise old A. P. had already prepared for such a contingency year and a half ago by rearranging Transamerica's stock so it could be switched quickly to an investment trust. It was on this realignment that SEC last week cracked down with 18 specific charges, from "creation...
While Wallace Groves's luck held he was a big shot. He acquired working control of United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Celotex Corp. and several other big industrial concerns. His private life was no less spectacular. He gave lavish parties, married Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, bought an island in the Bahamas, named his yacht the Regardless...