Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search for concealed arms, undertaken some time ago by the Allied Military Control Mission, has admittedly become a farce. Everywhere the Allied inspectors have been received with studied politeness. Nowhere have they been able to find any trace of concealed arms or munitions. The Mission is satisfied that Germany is not prepared for war, that she has not materially contravened the armament clause of the Versailles Treaty...
Tuchun Chi, of Kiangsu. He started the present dispute, allegedly at the behest of Wu, by claiming control of Shanghai, which is in his territory...
Tuchun Lu, of Chekiang, against Wu, he defends his control of Shanghai...
Undoubtedly the "Goose-Step" author exaggerates and asserts a mistaken opinion when he makes the blanket charge that the control exercised on our educational institutions by "big business" is always pernicious. But he proclaims a truth when he contends that such control leaves a Damoclean sword forever over the head of liberalism in our colleges. The financier-educators may cut the thread at any moment...
...these activities, if true, are small beside Mr. Durant's market operations while he controlled the General Motors Corp. in 1919. At one time his fortune was stated to be $100 million. The smash in stocks beginning in November, 1919, wiped out most of this, and Durant was compelled to sell out his control of the General Motors Corp. to a banking syndicate. But the genius of Chevrolet soon organized his own auto company, and is said to have done well in its shares on the Curb. In 1921-22 he "came back" in Wall Street by making...