Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...past century, since the founding of the Association, Harvard alumni have worked collectively to raise funds for the University, and took the lead in the move to free Harvard from political control and to set up a democratically controlled self-government...
With such sweeping measures, Ernie riveted centralized control upon British labor and management, went a long way toward gaining Labor-Socialism's objective of socialized production. Said Bevin to a conference of building-trade workers last week: "We are producing order out of chaos, and chaos it was when we went in. The system based on monopoly and big business failed to deliver the goods in our hour of trial." By last week Ernie was able to announce that production in some plants had risen 100% in the past fortnight. But that could be only the beginning. The catastrophe...
...shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king, an indoor sport who gave up all for Actress Gaby Deslys, was deposed in 1910 and after a short revolution a republic was proclaimed. Between 1910 and 1926, 40 Governments and 18 revolutions followed in rapid succession. Then the Army took control, placed General (now President) Carmona in power, and paved the way for the totalitarian Estado Novo under a tight-fisted dictator, Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...Amoco and subsidiaries turned in a net profit of $4,149,200, up 1,075% from the year the Pan Am deal was made. But meanwhile Louis Blaustein awakened one morning to find his worst fears confirmed: Standard of Indiana, after quietly buying up Pan Am stock, was in control of the production and refining end of his business...
Louis Blaustein protested, and there was a compromise. Pan American Petroleum & Transport was reorganized, combined with Amoco. The Blausteins traded their holdings for a 28% interest in Pan Am, and Louis Blaustein became its president. Standard of Indiana, in control with 70%, promised to see to it that Pan Am got new production and refining facilities of its own. But in 1937, Louis Blaustein resigned from Pan Am's presidency, Jacob gave up the chair of executive vice president; they sued as minority stockholders...