Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well as its direction and control. And the traditional way for the University to look after its activities is through endowments...
...this political band-master and his consistent hostility to what is fine and liberal need no recital here. Just how much injury he inflicted on the people of Boston during his last tenure of office will never be accurately known, for immediately following it he became Governor and gained control of the Finance Committee which was just beginning to investigate the Dolan case and one or two other irregularities that the Honorable Mayor had left behind...
...what the President said. Three minutes after the chat was over, on the air at his usual time, he undertook to rebut some of his former chief's points with a promptness unprecedented for the radio. Speaking extemporaneously from his notes, he applauded the President's crop control program, warned that a continuation of New Deal spending and taxing would lead to a "distribution of poverty...
...Canada, forestalled tuberculosis by hiking from Ontario to Alaska. Settling in Seattle, he got into Seattle's municipal power business at the beginning, has been there ever since so effectively that Seattle has lighting superior in quality and in cheapness to many bigger U. S. cities. Municipal control of power-is something of a fetish in Seattle and City Light Superintendent Ross became so idolized that when Mayor Frank Edwards fired him, the voters promptly fired Mayor Edwards by recall...
...rate flat tax with positive gain in revenue to the Treasury. The rule regarding trading by insiders can be modified so as to restore protective action by insiders on breaks, and still prevent unfair use of inside information. The margin requirements can be made a flexible instrument of control, rising promptly on stockmarket booms and dropping promptly on breaks. The great range of uncertainty regarding what is allowable in the activity of specialists and other dealers can be greatly reduced by prompt and clear definitions by the Securities and Exchange Commission. and, above all, the unfortunate requirement...