Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff...
...avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains. Inevitable disagreements with the captain's general policy and wide spread disapproval of patently faulty judgment in his picking and handling of men are frequently encountered here at Cambridge, and are generally of a more disagreeable sort than similar dissatisfaction...
...Clarence C. Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and of the University of Michigan, will speak tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on the subject "In Birth Control a Proper Subject for Public Discussion...
...Little, who has held many positions of importance in the scientific world, has been active in the interests of birth control, especially since his appointment as director of the American Birth Control League...
...Little, former president of the University of Michigan, and recently elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, studied at Harvard after his graduation. For two years, from 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, after which he was for four years research fellow in genetics...