Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Davis prepared to set off to inspect personally the progress of another thing in which his Department is concerned, Mississippi flood-control...
...board of trustees of the University Film Foundation are a number of Harvard administrators, business-men graduates, and educators. Through an Executive Committee the Board of Trustees will control the activities of the Foundation. The membership is limited, for the present, to 100 persons eminent in fields of Education, Science, Art, Religion, Medicine, Industry and Commerce in this and other countries...
...this "landslide'' be a lesson to the young salesman who thinks he can sell his wares by criticizing the other fellow. May it show the immoral that they are the unfortunate few. May it teach the foreigner that the Americans are still in control, and "may it once and for all proove (sic) to the Vatican that we do not want to confuse religion with our government...
...Kolster Radio Corp., Federal-Brandes Inc. (wireless communication equipment). International Telephone & Telegraph Co. recently bought control of Federal Telegraph. Hence it profits from Dr. Kolster's devices and knowledge...
...Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time. Said Father Claus: "No other man has beaten me once...