Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate, asked for the "nation's economic Salvation' through scientific government control of basic industries such as steel and transportation. In advocating this he contradicted the arguments of both his opponents at the Law School Forum in Rindge Tech last night on the subject of governmental regulation of economy...
...insisted that only government intervention can solve certain production problems. Private enterprise, Thomas explained, cannot handle such projects as flood control reforestation, and soil reclamation which are necessary to increase food production...
...amended in 1947 to read in part: "No rule, regulation, order, ordinance, or by-law of a city or town hereafter made or promulgated relative to or in connection with . . . signs, lights, markings, signal systems or similar devices or parking meters on any was within its control, shall take effect until approved in writing by the Department of Public Works or be effective after said approval is revoked." The 1947 amendment merely placed "parking meters" after "similar devices...
...professor also went on the record as favoring birth control, planned parenthood, and certain instances of artificial insemination, provided it was not carried to extremes...
...Marshall Plan countries, relying upon Dutch contributions to general European recovery and numbering among themselves several colonial powers, would favor this action. The question of Indonesia providing commodities vital to European recovery was never mentioned; obviously Indonesia could provide such commodities whether or not it was under Dutch control. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38 Associate Professor of History