Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been split between the majority supporters of President Vargas and the minority party of ambitious swashbuckling Governor Francisco Flores da Cunha, ominous telegrams began flying up to Rio de Janeiro. Majority leaders accused Governor Flores da Cunha of mobilizing his crack State army of 30,000 men to gain control of the Legislature. He was, moreover, "liberating criminals who are infesting the capital and the interior," planning to seize the State's telegraph and telephone system...
...international. What he may have done for Franklin Roosevelt toward saving Democracy remained in the jackpot, but last week Special Ambassador Davis dealt the cards in the game of Sugar without anyone leaving the table, showed that even in 1937 22 nations could reach an economic agreement: a production-control scheme...
...with all production-control schemes, purpose of the Chadbourne plan was to raise prices. They dropped. In 1930 the average world price of sugar was1½?per Ib. In 1932 it was 10?, considerably below the cost of production. With tariffs and import quotas keeping the world market limited without any limit on the amount of sugar dumped in London, the price has remained depressed. Last week raw sugar at Cuban docks was quoted on Manhattan's Coffee & Sugar Exchange at 1.18? per Ib., with domestic contracts being made...
EARTHLY DISCOURSE-Charles Erskine Scott WTood-Vanguard ($2). The author of Heavenly Discourse presenting a new cast of satirical puppets featuring God, Hearst, King Edward VIII. Hitler, the Supreme Court, Birth Control, Grade...
Courses designed to meet the "real educational needs of current lift" will be given, with a large number treating modern problems. Some titles of courses are" "Industrial Organization and Control," "Constitutional Government and Dictatorship," "Contemporary France and Spain," and "Child Psychology...