Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg way, and distributed through unlicensed channels...
...Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...
Typewriters. The National Cash Register Co. of Dayton last week requested the Federal courts to permit its purchase of the Ellis Adding Typewriter Co. of Newark, N. J. In 1916, the National Cash Register Co., prosecuted in an anti-trust action, was enjoined from acquiring control of any other company manufacturing cash registers, unless the government's consent to such acquisition was obtained...
Brass. Directors of the Rome Brass and Copper Company approved a merger with six other companies, the new combination to be known as the General Brass Corporation and to control about 20% of U. S. production of brass and copper...
...graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...