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Word: controllable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week took steps to improve co-operation on public projects between states and the federal government. He picked his own California as the first beneficiary, prepared to appoint commissions to study its water control problems, to urge the need for a gigantic bridge over San Francisco harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Worst Group of Men | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Mentally Egotistical Man. His hips are forward as he leans back on his heels, stomach and chest inflated. His hands are weak, his chin raised. Over his body there is very little mental control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Character Postures | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect to return to New York for the rest of my life. . . . My only consolation is that this whole situation arose through circumstances entirely beyond my control." However, at Fontana last week the second Mrs. Empringham announced that he was on his way to Manhattan barely to face any accusations, medical or clerical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Doctor's Evolution | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Travel Air to Curtiss-Wright. Curtiss-Wright Corp. is trading its stock for stock control of Wichita's Travel Air Co., its twelfth acquisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Integrations | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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