Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is much better off under the control of the wisdom of the average man than under the rule of that type of Intellectual to whom originality is more meritorious than wisdom. The average man in this country has no sympathy for a criminal and when serving on a jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet...
...president, Pathé-Cinema (red rooster trademark), to George Eastman (kodaks) at Rochester, N. Y.: "It is with great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...
...height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security holders in the now $25,000,000 corporation...
...those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...contrary to the advice of General Andrews; it was contrary to the wishes of the cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient vote-getting power can bully the American government into submission...