Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet-footed, Peter-Panic La Follette was ready to dash for this corner because Old Guardsmen control the Finance Committee to the exclusion of all Progressives. On the basis of seniority (length of Senate service) he had seemed sure of edging into the Finance Committee corner. But Old Guardsmen, alarmed, commenced beckoning the loose-jowled, slow-stepping Goff, Republican regular. They wanted him to run for the Finance Committee corner to head off bold Puss La Follette, over whom he has a technical advantage of seven months seniority. But Puss Goff was reluctant to obey the party summons because...
...Artichokes in the U. S., grown chiefly in California, are rare vegetables. Mr. Terranova is said to control a sales network virtually amounting to an artichoke monopoly in Manhattan markets...