Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, impressed by the guerrilla successes, announced a policy of nationwide hit-&-run attacks for the armed forces under his control. This week the Chinese Government at Chungking, headed by President Lin Sen, whose relationship to the Generalissimo corresponds to that of Soviet Russia's President Kalinin to Dictator Stalin, gave to Chinese guerrilla leaders (many of whom are civilians and thus, theoretically, not under army orders) enlarged powers to carry on their attacks behind the Japanese lines. That this order was hardly necessary was apparent from an admission by the official spokesman...
...same time Dr. Russell La Fayette Cecil, professor of clinical medicine at Cornell University Medical College and chairman of the New York Committee for Pneumonia Control, told the Kings County Medical Society that he had used M. & B. 693 with striking success in several cases of highly fatal Type III pneumonia. Moreover, said Dr. Cecil enthusiastically, the new English tablets appear to be effective against many types of pneumonia, may soon supplant expensive serums which have to be made specifically for each type of the disease...
...onetime errand boy who has high-pressured his undistinguished Daily Herald to the 2,000,000 mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair...
...control room of the Express shifts mostly between Stornaway House and Cherkley Court in Surrey, a 750-acre estate 20 miles out of London which Beaverbrook bought soon after he went to England. Both houses have phones in most of their 20-odd rooms, in their gardens...
Persuaded that there is "substantially complete control over the industry by a few large distributors," Trust Buster Arnold last July launched a grand-jury investigation in Chicago. Last week two criminal indictments under the Sherman Act resulted. One charged 14 corporations and 43 individuals with conspiracy to fix prices and control the supply of liquid milk in the Chicago area. The other charged 20 corporations and 20 individuals with a nationwide conspiracy to restrain the sale and use of counter-freezers with which retailers, hospitals, schools, etc., could make their own ice cream...