Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-Monopoly. To satisfy the President's trust-busting urge. Congress finally appropriated $500,000 to a committee to investigate monopoly, left $400.000 of the appropriation under direct Presidential control (TIME, June...
...Crop Control. The second Agricultural Adjustment Act, on the President's calendar for the special session but not passed until February, gave the Secretary of Agriculture full power to control crop marketing by voluntary co-operation if possible, by compulsion if necessary (TIME...
...loose public credit control...
...Limit bureaucratic control...
...Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into a strategic position which may permit them virtually to control the market. The agencies are under no governmental or other supervision . . . are extremely secretive about the technique at which they arrive at their judgment. ..." Mr. Palyi also had a long list of highly technical criticisms of the accuracy and permanence of the ratings. He was presently supported in his stand...