Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the course of the evening, the same procedure was repeated in half-a-dozen distributing stations of Consumers Power, a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. By morning, the switches controlling current for 1,000,000 consumers in the highly industrialized Saginaw Valley were completely under the control of the C. I. O. union...
Last week John L. Lewis and his political pragmatists in Pennsylvania adopted a third course which has been regarded with equal indifference by advocates of the first two: bidding for control of the Democratic Party by offering their own slate in the primaries. Gathered in Harrisburg for its first convention, the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council (C. I. O.) unanimously endorsed the Democratic primary candidacy of Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, urged its members to enroll as Democrats and to campaign for his nomination in the May 17 primary through the State branch...
...cancer diagnostic clinics throughout the country in which patients may be reasonably assured of complete examination, accurate diagnosis and "the best treatment that can be offered." If a local doctor or hospital does not know the address of the nearest clinic, "write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Rockefeller Center, New York City...
After hearing three lessons, lasting less than 15 minutes, on the advantages of conservation, students swung sharply in favor of Government control of farming. After a five-minute paper on murder, a group swung in favor of capital punishment. After reading a speech by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocating social insurance, the students favored it much more strongly than before...
...Deal's harshest reform, the Public Utility Act ordered all utility holding companies to register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden use of mails or other facilities of interstate commerce. SEC would then have power to control their financial transactions and, under the famed "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system with only one intermediary company allowed between the top holding company and actual operating subsidiaries. When most of the utility business refused to register, SEC agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test...