Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year I have warned that behind the flood control, behind the power development, was a deliberate attempt . . . for a little group of men to run things their way-good sometimes, bad sometimes-but always their way-forgetting that a check with the homefolks and their wishes is not only good practical horse sense but the very essence of democracy...
With these words Governor George D. Aiken last week stirred his legislature to come to the defense of Union Village. The Governor had a letter from Secretary of War Woodring directing that work begin on a Federal flood control dam on the Ompompanoosuc River before a contract had been made compensating Union Village and other towns for the loss of taxes on land condemned by the U. S. for the dam site...
...course, was Coach Harold S. Ulen of the Harvard Varsity. Throughout what must have been to him the greatest crisis in his career since his team first won from Yale in 1937, he displayed exemplary self-control and good sportsmanship. No alibis or excuses were to be heard from his lips; instead, he excused himself quietly from a gathering of reporters and officials and went over to congratulate the captain of the opposing team. For a man whose entire life is centered on his team, Hal Ulen took the defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community...
...extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...Black Hawks, dual control will be novel, but a change of managers in midseason is nothing new. Owner Frederic McLaughlin, polo-playing millionaire coffee man, apparently has put great store in the old sport maxim, "Pan the players and can the coach." In 13 years he has canned ten managers-a record for major-league hockey. "He tried almost everyone except Irene Castle [his divorce-seeking wife]," one sportswriter commented...