Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...securities with a market value of over three billion dollars, had combined earning power of a half billion a year. Sam Insull, however, was not content to be known as an operating genius alone. Through an elaborate series of investment trusts and holding companies, he proceeded to acquire stock control of those same utilities which he already controlled through good management. Because others were bidding against him, he paid fancy prices for almost every share he bought. And then, with well-publicized high-pressure campaigns, he sold them to the public, retaining voting control. Many buyers were poor, many were...
John L. Lewis' political implement, Labor's Non-Partisan League, published for the benefit of Labor voters a list of Congressmen coming up for renomination and re-election this year. Rated on this roster, chiefly by their votes on wage-hour control, were: A) aggressive friends of labor; B) passive friends of labor; C) borderliners whose fate might be decided by local circumstances; D) aggressive enemies of labor. Obviously this invitation to turn out the rascally Ds suited C.I.O.'s program of direct political action and tied in well with Administration strategy...
Last week it was hot in most of the U. S. In Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly...
...since 1934, when he defeated his onetime boss, slugging Craig Wood, in the final of the P. G. A. championship and went on to become the No. 1 pro that year, Paul Runyan has made a specialty of killing off golfing titans with his deadly potions of accuracy and control...
...home. . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." A second push of the bell would stop the record and open the door. But only Strauss's intimate friends knew enough to ring twice. Nowadays, when a visitor has been duly interrogated through the speaking tube, an electric control opens the door. But accredited visitors to the Villa Strauss are few & far between...