Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine inhales for him, the rubber ruff hugs his neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent its being sucked into his throat like a cork at every inhalation...
...Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their right to ''just compensation." Said Justice Cardozo, "The power to control and manage properly the property and affairs of the Indians in good faith for their betterment and welfare does not extend so far as to enable the Government to give tribal lands to others...
From 1902 until his death Henderson wrote on music for the Sun. He always insisted that he was simply "a reporter with a specialty-music." Singers thought enough of his specialty to ask him about their placement, production, control...
...airlines are in much the same position as adolescent children of divorced parents. By the terms of the divorce (the Air Mail Act of 1934, passed after the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancelation), "Mother" Interstate Commerce Commission has "influence," some jurisdiction. But "Father" Post Office-by control of the airmail subsidy-has the whip-hand. "Mother" I.C.C. would like to let the growing business expand in healthy exuberance. "Father" Post Office, remembering the airmail scandal, treats the airlines like boys in a reform school...
Though New York Steam appeared to be condensing at an alarming rate, there was little reason for a preferred stockholder to dump his shares. At one time control of New York Steam rested with the Andrews Institute for Girls in Willoughby, Ohio, the executors of Founder Andrews' estate having paid a bequest in Steam stock. Eventually huge Consolidated Edison of New York bought control, now owns 96% of the common stock. Consolidated plans to merge Steam with the rest of its utility business, has asked the New York State public utility commission to approve an exchange offer by which...