Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small fraction of the shrinkage. Nature, and men in cities other than Chicago, have done the rest. The engineers stated just how much effect various degrees of diversion at Chicago would have on the levels in general; pointed out means of preventing any lowering outside of Lake Michigan (by control dams similar to those at Lake Superior's outlet). But still the wrangling went on. Nothing is more invidious than intersectional politics. Regardless of engineering figures, Chicago was to be denied diversion in principle...
...private manufacture of arms in September; 2) took unofficial cognizance of a statement by Chu Chao-hsin that as the representative of the Peking Government of China he no longer considers himself the representative of China as a whole, since more than half the country is now in the control of the Canton Government...
...dark-eyed graceful woman, for 20 years Lord Northcliffe's secretary, made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
...Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising was increased and much news was crowded out.... That was business. I do not echo Lord Rothermere's admirers in calling it genius...
...Independent will repeat accusations against the 'International Jew.' This is no particular Jew at whom I point. 'The International Jew,' I say, 'is the most closely organzied racial entity in the world, with an espionage system that covers every village and every larger centre in the country, in direct control of all financial centres of government, including the U. S. Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand, and the ultra-conservative elements, on the other, so he has equal power in Communistic Russia and in capitalistic England, not to mention the theatre, motion...