Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...chief recreation, as usual, was to drive his hand-control open Ford (license plates, GEORGIA FDR) over the bumpy roads in a smoke screen of dust. His evenings he spent reading (presumably detective stories). Quickly he shushed reporters looking for significance in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's visit-said the talks involved no policy matters. By the weekend the nervous shakiness was out of his hands, and his relaxed fingers no longer tapped on the chair arm. He rose at 10 a.m., worked little, got his rest-but in Europe was the war; in Washington were the cables...
...with a bang by producing three superb documentary films in four years. In 1936 came The Plow That Broke the Plains, in 1937 The River, in 1940 The Fight for Life. All three were directed by Pare Lorentz. The first dealt with the dust bowl, the second with flood control, the third probed childbirth mortality in U. S. slums. Even captious critics granted that its 69 minutes of clinical realism established Pare Lorentz as No. 1 U. S. director of documentary films...
...termed "paralysis of the heart"-which was no surprise to some cynical Philadelphia taxpayers. After him came "The Dukes," the three Vare brothers, sons of a South Philadelphia hog-breeder: 1) George, one of the "King's" lieutenants, a contractor; 2) Edwin H., an ashman who extended his control of the neck to most of Philadelphia, died in 1922 controlling most of Pennsylvania's politicos and courts; 3) William, the youngest, whom the U. S. Senate refused to seat (1927-29), on the ground that he had bought the election, although not many Senators could refute Mr. Vare...
...Sell Hetch Hetchy power elsewhere-perhaps to the publicly operated irrigation districts in the valley. This Jim Black would not oppose. It would leave P. G. & E. in control of the San Francisco market, which provides 23% of P. G. & E.'s gross. But it would shave P. G. & E.'s profits from this market, since costlier power than Hetch Hetchy's would have to come from P. G. & E.'s own turbines and stand-by plants. Last week P. G. & E. common, a Wall Street blue chip, dropped 1¾ points...
James A. McLaughlin, professor of Law, was unable to get into the Royal Canadian Artillery although he applied for a commission, according to a story which he is reported to have told his seminar in Government Control of Business...