Word: controlled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gallup poll in which 58% of the replies held the New Deal wholly or partly responsible for the depression, drew a response from the White House. By way of a moderate gesture of encouragement to Business, the President, however, told a press conference that he was against Government control of railroads (seep...
...marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone in or out of Congress last week who supported both...
...Dear Jerry: ... I am very happy to know you have been thinking of me. My regards to your twenty-five associates who have also gone to the great inconvenience of communicating with me. I can assure you that everything is under control...
...Dearest Frankie: "Thanks for your reply to our letter. It confirmed our worst fears about you. "... We note that you say labor is 'under control' in your city. Knowing something about your methods of operation we're not surprised that you think it is. You've gotten away so long with profitable conniving between your machine and corporate industrial and financial interests that you can't imagine your 'control' ever coming...
...Revolution, last week celebrated her coming of age. Her celebration was to let her people exercise the right of universal suffrage. For years Russian workers have voted locallyvotes of 25,000 townspeople counted as much as the votes of 125,000 country people, thereby keeping the conservative peasantry under control. But last week Russia, having come of age, allowed her people all the fun and trappings of a real national election...