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Word: controller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week regular Republicans could no longer hope to control the Senate. It is barely possible that the next Senate will show a Democratic majority. But almost certainly the regular Republicans plus the insurgent Republicans will be a majority, thus giving to the latter the balance of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Primaries | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...everywhere. I do this for the sake of making the most beautiful flag in all the world 'a stainless flag' before the eyes of all the world. I do this for the sake of the Constitution. ... I do it for the sake of the ideals that must control your own children, who are dearer to you than the ruddy drops that gather in your hearts. I do this for the sake of my own little daughters and the homes they are to make some day, perhaps for some of your misguided sons. ... I hold aloft this picture dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Earnest Willie | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...this vast farming factory fleets of 75 horsepower tractors plow 1,000 or harvest 2,000 acres a day. Mechanical engineers control the machine systems, and report cards on the mileage covered by each tractor are daily handed to managers, who base pay bonuses upon mileage covered. New and improved methods of disking, plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing have taken this farm far away from story book sentimentality and made it into a highly industrialized system operating with low cost, due to mass production methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Metal Co. stock. He was in addition a stockholder of the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux. Hence the Government alleges that the Societe Suisse at the time of the claim was but a holding company for the Merton family interests, that that family retained majority control in it, and that through its recovery of the Merton equity in the U.S.-located American Metal Co. the seized 49% found its way circuitously back to the original Merton stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Trial | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...December, 1920, a representative of the Swiss company wrote an attorney in New York that it had acquired the control of the Metallbank and the Metallgesellschaft in the fall of 1919 and therefore it was entitled to the $7,000,000 held by the Alien Property Custodian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Trial | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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