Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio stations in France were placed under Premier Daladier's control, and Léon Brillouin, radio research scientist, was appointed director general of radio broadcasting...
While the struggle in Spain was between the old-line feudalists that have long governed the country and the new-fangled Fascists who now want to control it, on the broader international scene the issue was essentially one between the Rome-Berlin Axis and the British-French Peace Front. The Monarchists have always been pro-English; the Falangists are ready to sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Passing British-owned Gibraltar on an Italian cruiser recently, Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer was heard to mutter that the Rock's days of "disgrace" were numbered...
...meet. The country's sterling reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only set up control of exchange but took the drastic step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more favorable trade balance, was deeply resented by British Empire manufacturers who had always had a free...
...Transcript's creditors to take one-third of a new stock issue, at 20? on the dollar, in payment for their claims, raised $200,000 from 23 new stockholders, of whom he himself was the largest. By last April Trouble-shooter Johnson was in control of the Transcript...
...Advance and made it pay, reached out to acquire the Jamaica Long Island Press, the Long Island City Star-Journal, the Newark, N. J., Ledger. He was quietly buying an interest in the doddering Syracuse Herald when he heard about the Hearst-Burrill negotiations. Seeing a chance to control the evening field in Syracuse, Publisher Newhouse persuaded his backers to put up more money, offered $975,000 for the Journal and American, got them quick from the delighted Hearstians...