Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the German Republic until a successor for the late President Ebert has been chosen, the Presidential election campaign broke its fury over the country. The election is to be held Sunday, Mar. 29. The main, if not sole, issue is a fight between Republicans and Monarchists for control of the Republic. Neither Chancellor Luther nor Foreign Minister Stresemann, two of the most prominent German statesmen, is a candidate...
...Premier Zaghlul, 75 years of age, is undoubtedly the most powerful man in Egypt. His declared policy is to secure for Egypt absolute independence- that is, to end British control of Egypt's foreign affairs, to insist upon the withdrawal of British financial advisors and British troops on Egyptian territory, to transfer from the British the right to protect foreign minorities and to claim sole right of protecting the Suez Canal. Furthermore, he would abolish the Anglo-Egyptian condominion in the Sudan and make that country an integral part of Egypt wholly under Egyptian rule...
...remaining 32 years of his life he amassed a fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern...
...Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He bought an entrance into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came, several of the roads were in poor condition, went into bankruptcy and George Jay was obliged to go to his enemies for money. He lost control of the Missouri Pacific, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of the Denver & Rio Grande. He lost the Western Pacific, the Texas Pacific. Meanwhile, his losses had aroused his brothers and sisters, who succeeded in ousting him from control of his father's estate. The fight is still...
...problem of athletic deficits seemed an insoluble one and wholly irreconcilable with the necessity of maintaining diversified sports. As treasurer of the Financial Union at Yale, Camp worked out the first satisfactory solution of the difficulty. By pooling the finance of all sports and placing them under a unified control, he showed that taken all together they could be made to pay for themselves. Since that time centralized finance for athletics has been adopted by the leading colleges of the country, with the result that minor sports which were once thought impossible without private subventions, now flourish in American colleges...