Word: controller
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...like most countries, restricts its territorial jurisdiction to three miles but reserves the right in some instances to control foreign ships "hovering" offshore. During Prohibition, Coast Guard vessels enforced a 12-mile limit against rumrunners...
...serving his own apprenticeship.) When 75-year-old Adolph Ochs suffered a breakdown in 1933, Sulzberger temporarily ran things. After Ochs died in 1935, Mrs. Ochs (who died in 1937) and Mrs. Sulzberger got life interests in the trust he had set up for the block of stock that controls the Times. Named as trustees were Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Sulzberger and Adler. By giving control of the trust to Mr. & Mrs. Sulzberger, Publisher Ochs had chosen his successor...
...flourished until Raymond died. Later it went deeply into debt, by 1896 was losing more than $2,000 a week. Armed with a letter of recommendation from President Grover Cleveland (which he had obtained simply by writing the President and requesting it), Ochs went to New York and bought control of the Times for $75,000. By cutting the price from 2? to a penny, he tripled circulation in a year...
Watch the Cat. The prospects are that the Times, under the control of the "public trust"-minded Sulzbergers, will long remain a top newspaper. Under the will of Adolph Ochs, control of the Times and of the Chattanooga Times (circ. 54,453), will go after the death of Mrs. Sulzberger to the Sulzbergers' three daughters, Marian, 31, who is married to Orvil Dryfoos; Ruth, 29, music critic of the Chattanooga Times, the wife of Ben Hale Golden, who is now getting his careful newspaper schooling at the Chattanooga Times; Judith, 26, a doctor married to Dr. Matthew Rosenschein...
...film tells the story of a small factory whose workers take over control, only to run into such difficulties that they invite the boss back. Moral: workers and management need each other. London's film critics liked the movie. But at week's end, Rank officials, reporting half-empty houses in the first two days of its run, insisted bitterly-but helplessly-that the public didn...