Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each state the Senatorial campaign is painted with its own peculiar colors, beer v. no beer, farmers v. urbanites, slush v. purity, etc.; but the sweeping question which buzzes nationally is: "Will the Democrats be able to capture control of the next Senate?" Even in the 69th Congress, the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans, whenever they united, could outvote the regular Republicans. But actually to control the Senate and be able to organize its committees, the Democrats must have at least 49 members. They now have 39, are not in danger of losing any, because the seven Democratic vacancies...
Averell Harriman and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought control of the Georg von Giesche Heirs Mining Co. in Poland for $10,000,000 (TIME, June 14). They have just organized the Silesian-American Corp. to operate those Silesian properties as a subsidiary of Anaconda, the first important instance of an industrial enterprise of one 'country so overlording a similar one in another country. Last week Silesian-American sold $15,000,000 collateral trust bonds in Manhattan, to use in operations...
Results. In 1916 only 13 U. S. counties had health units to direct intelligent control of epidemics, infant and child hygiene, school hygiene. Last year there were 299. The Rockefeller Board gives such units temporary help, loans them experts, trains their executives. Last year it aided similar rural health services in many European countries...
...story, $40,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan appealed to the du Pont interests at its construction in 1915. Last year the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bought control. This they sold last week to William H. Vanderbilt, Harry C. Gushing III and President Leroy W. Baldwin of the Empire (labor interests) Trust...
...read a showboat's handbills when they played Uncle Tom down the Mississippi Valley)-"and The- odore Roosevelt (in person) putting-aside questions of state to decide more intimately those of the wardrobe. . . . Thomas Beer conclusive- ly proves that social discrimination against the Irish forced them into political control of New York; that Oscar Wilde had GOLD TEETH and wore imitation jewelry...