Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to Missouri to run the campaign, earned a smashing triumph when the State returned record Democratic majorities for both national and State tickets. Last week in Kansas City, appearing at his offices for the first time since his illness, Tom Pendergast felt perfectly safe in turning over "active control" of his machine to Young Jim. Pale, shaky and down 65 Ib. from...
Among actual King's men of long standing-not politicians suddenly turned "King's Men," but the urbane Gentlemen of the Royal Household-a measure of tranquillity has existed all through last week's constitutional crisis. While recognizing that the tremendous forces unleashed may get beyond control and suddenly alter the succession to the Throne, they recall the flair of King George for arriving at astonishingly simple common-sense solutions of royal complications...
Fourteen years ago Margaret Sanger made a trip to Japan where she preached birth control. Just how memorable this 1922 visitation was became evident last week when the editors of Tokyo's big Nichi Nichi thus headlined a preposterous dispatch about a Chinese woman giving birth to decuplets: MRS. SANGER WILL BE ASHAMED...
...answer to an assembly call by Clarence Cook Little, Lieutenant Colonel of the U. S. Army Specialist Reserves and director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, who is now zealously organizing a Women's Field Army against Cancer, squads of Pennsylvania women trooped to Philadelphia last week to be told that cancer is curable if detected early, to be urged to spread this word to other women. While these women were busy being told how to avoid death from cancer, Dr. Grace Medes, 49, of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute wondered whether the strange...
...steep slope of a quarter mile in width has enough trees to delight the skier who likes to run a slalom course at high speed. The only drawback to the Commonwealth slope is that it is apt to have a crowd of tobogganists flying down the hill out of control and obviously out of their minds. It is the Mecca for the orange and green panted young ladies of the suburban districts out of high school for the afternoon. For this reason it is a good place to keep away from on Saturdays and Sundays...