Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never had a strike or a misunderstanding. ..." Mrs. Clendenin then mentioned Nominee Hoover's feeding of Belgians and Germans, his flood-control work, Europe's understanding of him, and closed: "For these and a hundred other reasons, dear sisters, give Herbert Hoover your vote...
...said: "I do not favor any general extension of the Federal Government into the operation of business in competition with its citizens. . . . There are local instances where the Government must enter the business field as a by-product of some great major purpose, such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense...
Railroads. The Van Sweringen brothers gained control of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway, on which Leonor Fresnel Loree (trying to make a fifth eastern railroad system) for a time had an option...
...Loree had his option to buy control of the B. R. & P. He had had it more than a year. It lapsed; he renewed it, expensively, by payment of a goodly "binder...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...