Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education by the Federal Government. . . ." Only dissenter was Indiana's Townsend, who cracked back: "The Federal Government certainly never did the State of Indiana any harm when it meddled with roads...
Floods & Power. From George Aiken of Vermont came a bitter blast at Federal intervention in flood control. The whole Connecticut River flood-control program has been held up by New Deal insistence that, in return for Federal aid, all reservoir and power sites be turned over to the Federal Government-which Vermont refused to do. Vermont's Aiken: "Shall the Federal Government have the authority to take from a State without its consent and with or without recompense the natural resources [reservoir and power sites] upon which the industry, the income and the welfare of the people may depend...
...world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could not pay, got what she wanted by swapping. If trading were even remotely free on German stock exchanges there would have been panic and chaos last week as it was realized that Schacht was out-but iron, totalitarian Nazi control kept all quiet...
Meanwhile Dr. Schacht was motoring "for a few days" in Italy. His principal aides at the Economics Ministry were brusquely transferred to other departments of the German Government last week. Control of Germany's closely rationed imports of raw materials was taken over by officials directly responsible to Gőring. "Any further government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" snapped a busy Gőring aide...
...shifted to imported pulp, at year's end had a neat $112,500 profit. A price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...