Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner in which the military control of the occupied territories is to be terminated...
...will fight tooth and nail against the oil interests that are seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...
...acquired an option on loan flotations for Peru, had thwarted him at every turn in a most unfair manner. The U. S. Secretary of State in his reply (unpublished) stated that the Guaranty Trust Co. is a private institution over whose legitimate operations the U. S. Government has no control. He was also understood to have conveyed to Senor Leguia his belief that the Guaranty Trust has not been guilty of any unfair or unusual practices. Senor Agusto is said to be the handsomest president in Latin America. Numerous stories about his villainies are in circulation, some of which...
...Rockefeller Foundation announced that the result of recent work showed that hookworms and, to some extent, malaria and typhoid are rural diseases. "Attempts to control these maladies," said President George E. Vincent in his report, "have disclosed seriously backward health conditions in the American countryside . . . not due to causes inherent in rural life, but to a failure to extend to the open country the kind of sanitary and health services which have been developed in towns and cities." President Vincent also reported...
...against yellow fever (he discovered its organism). Similar work was done in Peru, Ecuador, Central America and Mexico, President Vincent said, with the result that in 1923 no cases of the disease were reported in Mexico, Central America, Ecuador or Peru; an outbreak in Colombia was put under observation; control measures were under way in Northern Brazil and workers were in training to resume study of the disease along the coast of West Africa...