Word: monopolistic
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...Party treasury with fear of Bryan's silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high because, though a monopolist, he was honest and not rapacious. His Yankee instinct was for pay-as-you-go government and that is the kind New Englanders like. One time when Boss Roraback was in the South, Governor John H, Trumbull and the Senate Finance Committee chairman agreed that Connecticut must have a bond issue, announced...
...bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status of the nation's banking structure will be clear at all times." Last month, announcing that Bank of America...
...effect, the University in its position as a monopolist has taken a step which may exclude some of its present students, and future men of similar financial standing. Seen in conjunction with the raise of tuition from $300 to $400, this new increase in the cost of education means that the University will be setting higher financial standards than its most populous class of undergraduates can bear...
...Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett of the U. S. Navy last week pointed out that if non-inflammable helium (gas next lightest to hydrogen) had been used the R-101 would not have exploded. British commentators had already noted this obvious fact, with the implication that the U. S., monopolist of the world's helium supply, had selfishly prevented any of the gas from being exported. President Hoover deemed this insinuation worthy of White House denial. The Department of Commerce revealed that it has only once refused permission for the exportation of . helium. That was because of insufficient information...
...second time in the eight years he has been a Deputy, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg took the rostrum. Germany's potent "Little Man in Blue" was in blue serge as usual. He is the Hearst, Paramount & Famous Lasky Corp. and Associated Press of Germany, a magnat and monopolist of propaganda who has bought the leadership of the Nationalist Party (reactionary, monarchist...