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Word: controls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the conditions of which they complain." Assistant Secretary Lowman in Washington failed to see it that way. Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Border Argument | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...conspired to gain control of the four newspapers after their acquisition by Lavarre & Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power & the Press | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...month ago Buyers Hall & Lavarre came to disagreement over control of their journals. A split followed, Buyer Hall asking for an injunction against his one-time partner to restrain him from obtaining operating control. Buyer Lavarre threatened to "disclose" all negotiations with the power company unless the injunction was withdrawn. The injunction still pending, amicable settlement of Hall-Lavarre differences had not been made last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power & the Press | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...danger lessened, correspondents drew from Statesman Stimson a characteristically frank admission that the peace making had become rather a free-for-all. "As long as the important countries which control public opinion are mobilizing it against war," he said, "I do not care about the methods they are using or about which moved first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Imposing Peace | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Nationalist Government did not actually "seize" the Chinese Eastern Railway but merely "took it under temporary control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Imposing Peace | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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