Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just what is it we mean by the law? . . . It is very easy to enact legislation. We have State Legislatures and the National Congress, that each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make the people, but the people make the Government...
...abroad by the McKenna Experts Committee (TIME, March 3). Forecasts of the Dawes report indicated resentment at the idea of an Allied Commissioner General. The suggested loan to Germany of $200,000,000 was considered too small. Nationalists and industrialists bitterly attacked the whole scheme. Dr. Schacht opposed Allied control, saying "a nation of 60,000,000 cannot be subject to Ottoman control methods...
...Once, when investigated, he said that if he had any interest in the Guaranty Trust Co., it was so small he had forgotten it. His small holding was in excess of $700,000. ¶ Mr. Baker once bought control of Chase Bank with a view to amalgamating it with his own. But the Chase Bank prospered so mightily he never effected the merger. ¶The First National is still most humbly furnished, but its dividends are scarcely ever less than 60 per cent on $10,000,000. ¶ Mr. Baker has gone in very little for public charity. Cornell...
...Commodore's son, William H. Vanderbilt. In 1879, however, "W. H." tired of administration, competition with Jay Gould and legislative attack; he also had serious doubts as to the advisability of one man's having as much money and power as he had. Accordingly, he sold control of the system to a banking syndicate headed by the then rising and brilliant young banker, J. P. Morgan. Practically ever since, the road has been financed by the Morgan group...
...Leland now complains bitterly that Mr. Ford has not lived up to his part of this agreement. Leland's control of the plant, he declares, has been interfered with by Ford agents, and while Ford has paid $4,000,000 to the Lincoln's approved creditors, he has done nothing for the Company's stockholders...