Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...yearly, to a maximum of 2,000 shares for $50,000- (or more)-per-year men. The stock has par value of $25, to bear 7% yearly. Employes may pay for it at $1 per month, may not dispose of it without permission of the corporation. However, control of the voting stock will remain for the present in the hands of Publisher Hearst...
...There must be in India a power which can step in and save the situation," says the Commission, adding that "situations" to be saved may include epidemics and plagues. Control of the army is thus to be "reserved," but by a refinement of language such reservation is not perpetuation of Dyarchy, because Dyarchy has always applied solely to provincial matters, whereas the army is national...
...earned $12,392,097; crude producer and refiner) bought Transcontinental Oil (small but well-integrated and recently prosperous; Amos L. Beaty, former Chairman of Texas Corp., has been Transcontinental Chairman since August 1929; 1929 earnings $4,723,990, three times 1928). The union is logical because the companies jointly control rich Yates Pool in Pecos County, Texas...
...takes a queer case: two little girls, daughters of a millionaire mother, who are wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...