Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control of a prominent French daily is a mark of success every French politician can understand. It means more than an obvious chance to spread propaganda; it means that the lucky politico has Backers...
...mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create in the Mediterranean another zone of expansion under British political and economic control, definitely contrary to the Italian Mediterranean spirit...
...alignment, Mr. Grant Miss McBeath, the estate of a former Journal business manager and the employes will each own one-fourth of the paper. Mr. Grant and Miss McBeath have directed in their wills that their stock will eventually be sold to employes thus giving them full control...
...five years 1926 through 1930 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway owned through its subsidiary, Virginia Transportation Corp., about 1,000,000 shares of stock worth $50,000,000, carrying, together with stock of affiliates, working control of the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads. These holdings were not reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. & O.'s Comptroller E. M. Thomas declared that this was "solely through a clerical error." When Senator Truman marveled at this explanation, Comptroller Thomas continued hotly...
...Shrewd, grey-haired Robert Ralph Young, who called himself and partners "babes in the woods" when they bought control of Alleghany Corp. from George A. Ball (TIME, May 3), insisted again that he could simplify the Van Sweringen pyramid more painlessly than could Congress. First step, said he, would be elimination of Alleghany Corp., not Chesapeake Corp. as he had announced fortnight before. But Babe Young appeared for the first time genuinely starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall...