Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before. He accused Congress of endangering the national defense, of returning power over the dollar to international speculators as it was in 1931. He singled out Felix Belair Jr., correspondent of the New York Times, for a special blast about big newspapers, whom he accused of wishing to see control of the money markets return to private hands. (Next day the Times recalled editorially that in 1922, Franklin Roosevelt was president of United European Investors, Ltd., speculators in German marks...
...bill renewing the President's power to revalue the dollar by getting Key Pittman's silver bloc to join them -the price being 77.57? an oz. for domestic silver. In Hyde Park, President Roosevelt hit the ceiling. He accused the hard-money men of returning control of the U. S. dollar to Wall Street's exchange speculators. Secretary Morgenthau announced that U. S. farmers and businessmen had "better start worrying seriously" if the Senate's action stood. Neither announcement improved the Senate's temper. The President returned to Washington from Hyde Park a day early...
...Retained one-man control of WPA. (Federal Works Administrator Carmody promptly announced he would retain Colonel Francis ["Pink"] Harrington whose Army pay of $7,200 the Senate supplemented with...
...That without getting off his seat, its driver can lift his plough over any such obstacle by simply touching a finger-tip control...
Commonly known as chronic infantile paralysis, this rare, creeping disease is a complete mystery to doctors. It attacks the grey matter of the spinal cord, slowly lays waste all muscles controlled by the diseased cord. First to degenerate are the tough fibres in the ball of the thumb. Gradually the other fingers shrivel into a typical "clawhand." Then the arm muscles slowly waste away. After the disease has been intrenched for many years, a patient may lose control of his trunk, face and leg muscles. At the end, he may be little more than skin & bone...