Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt control is tightened by the elections, first, there will be an open Administration drive to put through the anti-lynching bill. This will be followed by legislation, now being carefully thought out, to put an end to the disfranchisement of the Negroes in the South. . . . That is the dream. . . . If they win, they are going after those five million voting fish in that untouched Southern reservoir with a legislative net guaranteed to catch them...
...McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...schools independent of city governments. Today, in nearly three-quarters of the 191 largest U. S. cities, school boards are elected directly by voters (the rest are appointed by mayors, city councils, judges, State agencies), and in over half of these cities neither city nor county officials have any control over school budgets...
...after page 25 Mr. Murphy seldom appears and Buckminster Fuller jumps from housing to Einstein's theory (with an aside on the pernicious effect of lullabies), lambasts finance capital and advances a provocative comparison between primitive superstitions and the contemporary control of opinions. He believes that money will soon be based on the "energy dollar," that power will soon be transmitted by radio, that all basic industries in the U. S. will be socialized within a decade...
...since written nine (to Wife Kathleen's 60), dealing with such topical problems as education (Salt), marriage (Brass), women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed). They have brought him neither the literary reputation of his brother nor the big profits of his wife. But they have been moderately good, moderately successful, have kept him from being known as simply "Kathleen Norris' husband." Bricks Without Straw takes the topical theme of Radical Youth. Son of a strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student...