Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
Brown-"The report is in part false and in toto so misleading. ..." New York University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...happened since 1925 events that even visionary President Kraft could not have foreseen. In 1928 Kraft Cheese Co. acquired Phenix Cheese Corp., changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., became dominant in the U. S. More companies have been added constantly. Late this summer it became known that control of Kraft-Phenix had passed to Selected Industries, Inc., and affiliated investment groups. But bigger than any of these developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank. Other companies included were Hershey Chocolate Corp...
Donner Steel. Buffalo company making mostly special steels. Control was bought this summer by Mr. Eaton who paid $35 per share for the stock held by President William Henry Donner. Later the same offer was made to the minority holders. Company recently lost a patent suit to the Witherow Steel Corp. Eaton interests are now reported seeking control of Witherow...
Just what position Mr. Girdler will hold in the Eaton "interests" is as doubtful as what companies Mr. Eaton intends to put in the long-discussed super-steel-merger. Mr. Eaton, working with William Gwinn Mather and Otis & Co., sponsors of Continental Shares, Inc., is supposed to control enough steel companies to enable him to form a single unit that will challenge Bethlehem's position as second biggest U. S. producer. Until plans for this consolidation are completed, it is probable Mr. Girdler will advise the Eaton group on technical matters and stock activity. Chief companies with which...