Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Bill is a feeble victory for Republican Old Guardsmen who for weeks lost control of their favorite legislation to a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans. Last month, due to logrolling, trades and secret bargaining between local interests, the coalition disintegrated, the Old Guard regained control, rewrote rates...
Correspondents of long experience cabled that never before had they seen the present Supreme Pontiff show such intense emotion, or such iron self-control, as during the service. He appeared without many of the customary trappings of the Papacy, wore neither the triple tiara, nor the dazzling white Pontifical garb, but instead a simple cape and stole of scarlet...
...minutes less than the Bremen's best time, thereby setting a world record of 4 days, 17 hr., 6 min. from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Meantime her owners announced that they were in the process of entering into a 50-year "commercial alliance" with the Hamburg-American line. Control of each company will remain with its present officers. The tonnages "allied" are so great that they will operate side by side as the third largest mercantile unit in the world, the second being P. & O., and 'the first Royal Mail, both British...
...Gandhi gave us a scare," Lord Lloyd has confessed. "His was the most colossal experiment in world history, and it came within an inch of succeeding. But he couldn't control men's passions. They became violent, and he called off his program. You know the rest. We put him in jail...
Corrigan-McKinney. One of the finest U. S. steel plants is that of the $65,000,000 Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. of Cleveland. Last week Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., allied with the Eaton-Otis-Mather interests, bought Corrigan-McKinney control from four women relatives of former officials.* An eventual merger with Republic Steel is generally expected. Previous to the deal's announcement, both U. S. Steel and Bethlehem were supposed to be after Corrigan-McKinney, thereby leading to the conclusion last week that the purchase was a strategic move in the Eaton v. Bethlehem contest...