Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was surprised that the opposition to his proposal had not been more violent. If it had been, he might have been happier; a good resounding denunciation from the Liberty League would have been a great help to him. But he still had the situation apparently well under control. It was conceded that his leaders could whip his bill through the House. The Senate was divided into approximately equal thirds: one-third opposed to the bill (half of them Republicans), one-third in favor of the bill, one-third still on the fence. The Democrats who had declared themselves...
Secretary Wallace talking to the press, remarked, apropos of future plans for crop control (see p. 14): "All these proposals in one way or another require Federal action. Nobody knows what the fate of any of these would be under the Constitution as now interpreted." The National Grange declined to take the hint and declared it had doubts of the wisdom of the President. The more politically powerful Farm Bureau Federation which has prospered by playing ball with the New Deal delayed its answer...
...official newsorgans said that whoever succeeded him as Commissar of Heavy Industry will "face the task of uprooting bureaucracy and restoring morale." Observed a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Moscow: "The authorities never permit any suggestions that there might be ineradicable defects in the very system of centralized control of all Soviet industry under 'planned economy' directed by politicians. Any person making such a suggestion would automatically become a 'counter-revolutionary...
Because he saw a bright future for rail traffic in the "golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
...smaller sum is to be taken over for scholarship by the Department of Government of concentrators "preparing to serve our country in public offices of trust and responsibility in the gift of the people." But question arises as to the disposal of the $150,000 endowment, control of which is vested in the University authorities. Designated to be known as the Thomas E. Upham, Class of 1868 Fund, it is to be paid to the "Episcopal Divinity School of Harvard" to insure stipends for students of American parentage...