Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution provides an iron curtain and an unbridgeable gulf between the Executive and the Legislature. The Executive-President, Cabinet and the rest-are not responsible to Congress and so do not have control of Congress . . . [Our elections] are not . . . declarations by the electorate on important issues before them, but merely variations on old copybook maxims such as "Don't change horses in midstream" or "People do not generally vote against prosperity...
...Fire control equipment in the three-story structure, she said, totals two pairs of wooden fire doors, six fire extinguishers, and four safety ropes...
...Skin of Our Teeth, she brought off a brilliant piece of comedy as Sabina, the eternal wanton. But she lacks the stability and discipline to keep her gift under control over a long period. Her performances fluctuate more than most after the opening night. Says a friend: "The longer she plays in something, the less you see of the play, the more you see of Tallulah." She has turned Private Lives into a one-woman show-at once the triumph of a personality and the surrender of an actress. Says she: "I'm Tallulah in this play...
Money in the Sticks. The Messrs. Shubert also went on building or buying control of theaters across the U.S. To fill them, they shrewdly concentrated on operettas, suitable for road shows. They did not depend on the high-priced Broadway casts, but on low-salaried, second-rate singers. The Shuberts often had as many as 20 operettas (The Student Prince, Blossom Time, Maytime, etc.) touring the U.S. In one season they cleared $850,000 on The Student Prince alone...
Counted Out. General Electric, two of its subsidiaries and three officials were fined a total of $56,000 by a U.S. district court for conspiring to control world markets in hard-metal alloys during the '30s (TIME, Oct. 18). The court turned down a recommendation of six-month jail terms for two officials "because of their distinguished services to the Government during...