Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clean through, Mr. Baldwin controlled his rage, began thus: "There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own. It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail...
...week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in all mutual disputes. To these advanced peoples, so boldly in the van of Peace, so highly educated, so progressive in politics, police methods, liquor control and social legislation, the grim, tremendous, deadly Rodney might well have seemed as incongruous, as curiously old fashioned as a dinosaur or brontosaurus...
Spartan Brothers. Kenneth Hunter's tooth ached. John Hunter clung hard to the control stick to keep from falling asleep Their second-hand Stinson Detroiter, City of Chicago, its left wing tank leaking badly, listed far to the right. The Wright J-6 motor coughed and sputtered after 18 days of continuous flight. Brothers Walter and Albert Hunter came up in their Plane Big Ben for the 154th time with gas and oil, with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant...
...story writer, is now propagandist perennial. Lately his novel-pamphlets have preached the necessity of peace. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, besides much Wellsian argumentation many Wellsian men of straw, gives Author Wells's parable of what will happen to the world if old-fashioned people remain in control of it. Few present-day Wells readers will be surprised that the story proper begins on Page 90, that all before that is argument, exposition, setting the text...
...subsidiaries. Whether the reverse also holds?that a manufacturer may not own a railroad that hauls his freight? is the question, to determine which the Attorney General is bringing his suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only of the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern, but also of the Bessemer & Lake Erie (which connects its mills with the lakes) and of its two roads in the iron mining district, the Duluth, Missabe & Northern and the Duluth & Iron Range...