Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
...Conservative heckler: "Does the Labor Party still believe that His Majesty's Government should control lands...
...sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
Because this item was widely used, members of the Association were happy. No association of doctors or fussy housekeepers, the Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective...
Edward Nash Hurley* of Chicago, wartime chairman of U. S. Shipping Board, in a letter to Georges Theunis of Belgium. President of International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...