Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the Observatory," in the words of its founder, "is mainly research, free from prescribed duties and independent of outside control...
...Sustained the President's veto of the Surplus Control Act (farm relief) by 31 votes...
Another name for Senate Bill 3555 was the Surplus Control Act and another, as everyone knows, was the McNary-Haugen Bill, and another, according to some advisers of the U. S. Farmer, was "Salvation." The name finally applied to it by President Coolidge, as to its predecessor of last year, was, in effect, "Monkey Busi-ness...
...farmers but a subtle sales tax upon the whole country. The "equalization fee" was to be levied on imports, also. It thus became, in simple fact, a tariff. President Coolidge objected to a sales tax or a tariff administered by a Federal farm board, for the reason that control of taxation and the tariff are carefully vested in the Congress by the Constitution. More over, President Coolidge could see that not even the proposed farm board would have ultimate control of the farm tax or the farm tariff, for behind the board, with power to command, were the proposed advisory...
...these Goodyear with assets of $179,000,000 is the largest. Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...