Word: controll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney for the Birth Control Federa tion of America
...those which give businessmen a "what's-the-use" attitude. The Administration's tax man in the House, Chairman Bob Doughton of Ways & Means, echoed Mr. Morgenthau. At a meeting of Senate committee heads, Chairman Pat Harrison of Finance, arch foe of the Administration's social-control tax theories, was permitted to cry a truce on all legislation unsettling to Business. Secretary of War Woodring even made a speech last week in which he deplored "spending and taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face the graver alternative -depression and chaos...
Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
...present state of U. S.-Japan relations, be tantamount to fortification of Guam. It would be a provocative gesture even if excused by Japan's alleged fortification of islands in the absorbed mandate groups (Caroline and Marshall)-and particularly when viewed in connection with the British desire to control Japan's approach to the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya (oil, coal, rubber, food). More provocative, Guam is only 1,356 miles from Yokohama...
...TIME, Feb. 20). Republican Leader Joe Martin shrewdly held his forces in hand until he could combine them with 64 anti-Guam Democrats. The vote was 205 to 168 against Guam, and then 368 to 4 in favor of the other eleven bases. Republican Adman Bruce Barton, unable to control himself: "Guam, Guam with the Wind...