Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vermont's legislators-mostly Republicans as they have been throughout the New Deal, mostly farmers like their Governor, mostly thrifty taciturn New Englanders-made history: they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
...issue was promptly broadened. Governor Aiken sped to Boston, met New England's five other Governors. The Government's flood control plans call for 32 dams in New England. The six Governors -Republicans all since last November's election-lined up solidly with Vermont...
...Washington, Secretary Woodring retorted that on Governor Aiken's head would lie full blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
...with Soviet Russia was anathema. They professed to be impressed by accounts of German air superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army's revulsion at the thought...
Under Michael Savage the Government took over, by a series of socialistic laws, direct control of railroads, broadcasting, reserve banking, iron and steel output. Wages were jacked up, hours cut. Unionism was made compulsory. Rising prices were checked. Last September Prime Minister Savage said there was plenty more to be done if New Zealanders wished to do it. An October election gave him the mandate, whereupon he at once originated the program which had businessmen so perturbed last week: exchange control...