Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transfer of the control of these stations should be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, they will represent purely an investment upon Mrs. Roosevelt's and my part...
...conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised his final decision on an extra session probably within a week. In Washington three days later, he announced that he would make the first "fireside talk" of the autumn to a national...
American History is a peculiarly suitable province for such academic pursuits because the problems that face us all cannot be understood without some historical perspective. Crop control, John Lewis's C. L. O., and the President's foreign policy can be most intelligently discussed by those familar with the rise of Populism, the history of craft unionism, and the conditions prevalent when Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor...
High winds prevailed, making acurate ball control difficult...
Spectacular as that operation was and useful as it might be to specialists in birth control, it was simply one incident in a profound research into fundamental biological activity which Dr. Burr and colleagues at Yale are quietly pursuing. They want to analyze "the electrical properties [of living creatures] and determine where and how they appear and to find some reasonable explanation of their presences. . . . It is not improbable that they may be bound up with the dynamic wholeness of a living system. Electrical currents produce electrical fields and it is possible that a living organism possesses not only many...