Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Spanish revolution broke out in July, not a few dealers in death who had sharp lawyers to tell them their rights, journeyed to Washington to ask the State Department's Office of Arms & Munitions Control for licenses to peddle their wares in Burgos or Madrid. In each case, gimlet-eyed Chief Joseph Coy Green, who used to curdle the blood of lazy Princeton freshmen with his drill sergeant ways, would either wheedle or scare the applicant into dropping his request...
...Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
President Roosevelt last week matched Edward VIII in making sexual conduct a matter for unembarrassed adult discussion. In an open letter to a conference on Venereal Disease Control in Washington, the President stated: "Since I cannot attend in person, I am glad to convey to you . . . this expression of my very deep interest in the success of your effort. . . . The Federal Government is deeply interested in . . . reducing the disastrous results of venereal disease." That this was high time to do some plain speaking about sexual conduct was the deliberate conviction of Dr. John Hinchman Stokes, University of Pennsylvania professor...
...reasons for removing Dr. Frank are no more valid than those set forth by the regents of the university Wednesday morning it may well be assumed that the desire of the state administration to secure a more firm control over the university by the insertion of a more pliable man is the motive prompting the move to oust Frank rather than any action, inaction or failing on his part...
...overly dramatising this case to point to the corrollaries of academic bondage. In other lands control of schools has suggested control of the press--then of speech. At such a stage the term civil rights is mere verbage. Princetonian