Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for future legislation, the President sent Congress the National Resources Committee's 120,000-word report on a long-range plan recommending Federal, State and municipal expenditure of $2,100,000,000 over the next six years for flood control, irrigation and navigation improvement all over the U. S. Four days later, the President followed up the committee's report with a message of his own, calling for a comprehensive study of developing and preserving U. S. forests...
...that he [Chairman Morgan] was moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy has led him beyond reason and beyond logic. When jealousy, that green-eyed monster, obtains possession of the human heart, it is not long until it has control of the human intellect, the human mind...
...five tables, or 25 from each college. Each table will have an undergraduate Chairman to guide the discussion along the lines mapped in the agenda. Three of these will be from Yale this year, one from Princeton, and one from Harvard. Table 1, on Government and the Control of Money and Credit, will be led by a Harvard Chairman...
...there is one field in which direct federal subsidization, but not control, would be welcome, it is education. Up to the present time the government has spent millions on the W.P.A. for different public works as well as for unemployed professionals. It cannot hope to abolish "glaring inequalities" in the fullest sense without establishing a similar administration to take care of the funds now destined for state commissions. For it is absurd to think that appropriations that are granted to Southern states will be used for negro as well as white education. It is absurd to think that politicians...
...other hand, if the government established a national educational board, it would not have to control national learning. As under the Committee's present plan, direct control of appropriations would not necessitate control of what is taught. There is little danger that the government will, or can, subvert the public school curriculum which is the same throughout the nation by withholding funds from some, subsidizing others. In the one case, therefore, in which the Roosevelt administration can make good use of federal efficiency, it seems to be abandoning it for political policy...