Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, the Democrats must take 53 seats from Republicans. Even if they fail to make this full gain necessary to organize the chamber and elect their own Speaker (it would be John Nance Garner of Texas), they may achieve practical control of House affairs with the aid of about 15 Wisconsin and other Republican insurgents. Many a Republican leader considers such an eventuality as worse than an outright Democratic victory. Particularly sensitive to the possibility is the man who would then be presiding over a House that would be Republican in responsibility but Democratic-Insurgent in power and practice...
...tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes. To market this vast...
American Co., San Francisco holding com pany. About a year later, American Co. passed into the control of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. which bought entire con trol of C. F. Childs & Co. for $3,187,000. Meanwhile, Bond-broker Childs formed Childs Securities Corp., began dealing again in government bonds. Last week it was rumored that Gold man Sachs Trading was offering to sell C. F. Childs & Co. for a comparatively small price. Then the clay after the Prince & Whitely failure the announcement was made that Mr. Childs had bought back the firm's name, that Goldman Sachs Trading...
Plans for the experimental theater were drawn up this summer by A. L. Love joy, director of the school, and A. P. Segal. They called for a forest age, a curtain less stage, "tormentor towers", placements for lights and light control, storage room, and seating for an audience. Offices for the school, for the director and the art director, and a drafting room were also included...
...living quarters were completely built in, enveloped by the hull. The Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin passenger cabins are suspended be neath the hull, behind the control cabin under the ship's nose...