Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
...Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill of its own. This too was expected to omit the disagreeable and controversial question of raising money, leaving it to the Ways & Means Committee to work out a scheme of paying for crop control, presumably in the regular session...
...Speaker found it harder to run the House, there was also from the President's point of view, less need for him to do so, since the reins were in his own hands. Currently, with Federal spending curtailed and Congressional revolt on foot, the President has less control of the House than before. In this state of affairs, Franklin Roosevelt's toothache might have been considerably alleviated last week had he been sure that Speaker Bankhead could: 1) re-establish the onetime prestige of the Speakership and 2) employ it with a strong hand...
...year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will probably be disrupted by independence in 1946, it might react greatly to the discredit of its sponsor. President Roosevelt appointed a committee to investigate the islands, determine how the transition to economic self-control should be effected. This gave Shadow Boxer Quezon a chance for some more spirited footwork in which he did his best to make a favorable impression on the committee by permitting his unicameral legislature to legalize a scheme for woman suffrage which he had previously attempted to forestall (TIME, Sept...
Again, Imperial Headquarters. During the Chinese-Japanese War of 1894-95 and during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the Japanese Cabinet at Tokyo was virtually superseded and shoved out of control by setting up so-called Imperial Headquarters. Last week Imperial Headquarters was again set up within the hallowed, moat-encircled palace of Emperor Hirohito. According to an official communique, the War Minister and Navy Minister will occasionally invite the Premier to sit in with them and will keep the rest of the Cabinet posted as to what decisions are made by the potent militarists and revered elders...