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Word: controls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, there is the matter of finances. All the property of the University is in the name of the Corporation. They control all the University finances, and this control is subject to no veto power above. Thus, though the system of University government is one of checks and balances, the pendulum seems to be stuck far over on the side of the Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHECKS AND BALANCES | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

...duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes magnalite commercially usable. Faced with a long-drawn fight for control which will ruin all the little stockholders, grandstanding Dan Armstrong makes the best grandstand play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Into and out of Superior Court in Los Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters' Squabble | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Every alert newshawk knew that George Alexander Ball, the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar maker, had been listening attentively to offers for the stocks by which he controlled the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Coming-Out Party | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...manifesto published in paid advertisements last summer by the American Iron & Steel Institute declaring war on John L. Lewis. It was evident to Mr. Taylor that Steel's traditional "blood and brimstone" labor policies were thoroughly outmoded. Yet "to give in to Labor spinelessly meant to lose control over the business one had been hired to manage. To fight Labor adamantly meant, for a long time, no business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Story of a Story | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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