Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invitation" a scarcely veiled threat to impose peace if none could be found by negotiation. Four weeks after the negotiations bogged down, John Lewis last week announced: "Peace, as such, is a secondary consideration to the organization [of non-union workers] . . . The A. F. of L. is still in control of a small group of leaders firmly entrenched, reactionary in their attitude on public affairs, tolerant of many evils in the A. F. of L. . . . The C. I. O. board is unanimously convinced that the A. F. of L. is following a 'rule or ruin' policy...
...Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that: "No group, whether racial, nationalistic or ecclesiastical, should be allowed to place its own interests above the public weal or to exercise a disproportionate control of public affairs...
...starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
...Farm Bill (TIME, May 22), the Senate last week shoveled earth on the corpse. From the House's supply bill for civil functions of the War Department ($305,188,154), the Senate Appropriations Committee manfully chopped $25,000,000 of rivers & harbors pork, $25,000,000 of flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks...
...Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch on earth...