Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination. Wrote he: "No Justice of the Supreme Court should capitalize into wealth the prestige and influence acquired. ... He should neither expect nor receive appointment to the position of Chief Justice. . . . There are rumors afloat that a huge and uncontrollable political machine has been built up whereby governmental control will be lodged in the hands of a few men and, with the confirmation of Judge Hughes, the control will embrace each of three coordinate branches of the Federal Government. . . . We'll be fortunate if we don't wake up to find the Supreme Court has handed down opinions which will...
...other was Clarence Cook Little, the university's president, whose administration policies the Board of Regents politically dislike. Dr. Little (a doctor of science, not of medicine) has returned to the genetics study of his youth. Also he is now director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...Manhattan. Showmen, long impotent in creating new superlatives, can murmur nothing except "titanic" when they think of the $10,000,000 that went into its erection. But few stockholders in Roxy Theatres Corp. are proud of their palatially gaudy enterprise. For, despite the fact that Fox soon bought control, Roxy A stock has declined from its offering price of $40 in 1925 to $22, has never been listed on any exchange. And Roxy performances, while resplendent with tinseled stage-shows, redundant with the harmony of a vast 80-piece orchestra, nevertheless seldom seem to include good pictures...
Pennroad to control T. A. T.? In spite of denials by "higher-ups," last week's report was that the Pennroad Corp. has bought control of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Pennroad Corp. is a holding company of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad cooperates with T. A. T.-Maddux in the U. S.'s most famed air-rail system. The elevation of Daniel Schaeffer, Pennsy vice-president in charge of traffic, from director to chairman of the executive committee of T. A. T.-Maddux, the election of J. L. Maddux to the company's presidency...
...roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham dove his Pitcairn to zoom over it. The observers presumed that he intended to rouse the watchman with the snarl of his motor. He misjudged his distance by inches. His wing ripped off the platform, the plane out of control hurtled about 100 feet to the Connecticut River and landed in four feet of water, upside down. When the observers extricated him he, the jaunty, cocksure pilot of the hour before, was dead...