Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that hidden control has been entirely successful in shaping the policies of the Administration, so that any private program is not interfered with...
...stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...
Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...
...Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant fall forward exhausted by the exertion this effort had cost him at such an altitude. Out of control, the plane dived thousands of feet into the oxygen-laden air below, where both made a timely recovery, landed the plane, delivered the photographs...
Almost eleven years ago, when the perfunctory audit of the Home Mission Board was completed, a tall, ascetic-looking auditor made apt suggestions, so impressed the star Boarders that they sent for him a few months later when the treasurer of the Home Mission Board resigned. The job included control of the board's funds, paid a salary of $4,500 a year...