Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade-would be put out of action. Nobody was surprised when ex-Baron Mitsui and the others were forced to turn in their holdings for government bonds-frozen for ten years-and to live dourly on official allotments of $40 a month...
...wrote Pope Pius XI in his 1930 encyclical, Of Chaste Marriage. Roman Catholics are expressly forbidden to use contraceptives. But does the ban also apply to the "Catholic form of birth control" known as the Rhythm . Method?* Last week Servite Missionary Father Hugh Calkins, known to millions of U.S. Catholics for his columns in the weekly pamphlet Novena Notes, warned Catho-lies to be wary of it. In the current issue of Integrity Father Calkins goes to work on the "beauty-shop theologians and gabfest experts" who contend that Rhythm has the church's blessing...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
...insurgents to withdraw their resignations and go back to work. Their terms: a change in the company's bylaws to give President Norton (and not Chairman Avery) "general executive authority . . . over the entire business and affairs of the corporation," subject only to the board's control. Crowed one executive: "It's the beginning of the end for Sewell Avery...
...million and 75,000 shares of Hoving Corp. common stock (worth about $800,000 at its present price), he bought control of New York's six John David, Inc. men's wear stores (last year's gross: $8.8 million). That deal gave Hoving a total of 13 stores, boosted his current gross to an annual rate of $28 million...