Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Congress he voted for the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Immigration restriction (1924), Tax Reduction (1926, 1928, 1930), the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Radio Control...
Warner Brothers' Pictures, inc. (Said to control 25% of total U. S. production, 15% of which is accounted for by Vitagraph Inc., wholly owned subsidiary): $17,271,000 as against...
...said to have agreed to the formation of a voting trust (one Fox vote, one A. T. & T. vote, one Halsey, Stuart vote) to manage Fox affairs (TIME, Dec. 16). In January the agreement had become a disagreement, with Mr. Fox refusing to hand over immediate control to his fellow trustees (TIME, Jan. 13). Last week's formation of Fox Securities Corp. was universally considered as an attempt to shake off the banking hold, to supplant the voting trust, to leave Mr. Fox refinanced and free. Though $35,000,000 represented only a portion of the Fox indebtedness...
President Hoover's judgments are colored, as are those of all statesmen, by the bias of his personal experiences. The part played by successful business men in the affairs of the government, which were at one time entirely controlled by the political whims of the right party boss, is increasing. Lamont and Mellon hold Cabinet posts, Dawes goes to London: Young and Morgan put Germany on a paying basis. On the committee, composed to stabilize business after the Wall Street debacle, are men all with a practical insight into the social and economic aspects affecting every section of the country...
...pyrotechnics of the sensational "expose" of last fall, the second survey of the Carnegie Foundation on college athletics seems mild. Dealing with the literature written on athletics as a subsidiary to education, on the controversy between mass athletics and specialized competition, and on the aspects of overemphasis and faculty control, the Foundation's charges, more general than those of the now famous "Bulletin No. 23", are not startlingly new. The survey is more a summary of what athletics ought to be as contrasted to what they...