Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's Commission on Higher Education, recommending a giant plan of federal aid a year ago, left a loophole for private colleges. On the premise that states should have complete administrative control, the Commission advised that states should also be able to decide what college is private and what college isn't, which is a bit subtler than the Taft arrangement, but essentially the same...
...federal funds. Under the Taft kind of compromise, parochial schools would get stronger in some states, and weaker in others, depending on the power of local Catholic pressure groups. Supporters of aid to private schools (not Catholic alone) say that the basis of federal grants should not be public control, but public service. They maintain that Catholic schools turn out educated citizens too, and should receive equal support...
Compromise? In areas already under Red control, the Communists are proving generally to be more lenient than anyone had expected. The Rev. Earl Ballou, acting secretary for China of the American Board (Congregational), reported that he has received encouraging word from several missions in occupied areas . . . From two faculty members of Yenching
...Abraham Lincoln carried a Waltham), it often ran erratically, and almost failed after World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...
...model). Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.'s President Benjamin Abrams promised a 16-in. table model "within 60 days" for only $400, and slashed the present price of the loin. table model by $30. The Hallicrafters Co. said it would do even better; it promised a 16-in. remote control receiver...