Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivers and on the Panama Canal. He has worked before with both the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army. Awaiting confirmation by the Senate, all he would say about his new job was: "It is possible to control the river, entirely possible. It depends on spending the proper amount of money and on using the proper plans...
...Having signed the Flood Control bill, President Coolidge consigned several other bills to Congressional limbo. A single day brought forth eight vetoes. The rejected measures included: the $3,500,000 bill for roadbuilding in public domains (Indian reservations, national parks, etc.); a 10% pay-raise, totaling some $6,000,000 per annum, for night-working city and railroad postal employes; a bill of extra allowances to fourth-class postmasters for rent, fuel, light, equipment; a bill to promote Captain George R. Armstrong, U. S. A. (retired) to lieutenant-colonel...
...Marquis de Estella. The first almost quadruples Spain's usual appropriation for naval construction and brings the sum available for this purpose in 1928 up to 600,000,000 pesetas ($100,200,000). The second establishes the manufacture of paper as a State monopoly, thus strengthening the direct control over Spanish newspapers already exercised by the present Dictature...
Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...
Andrew W. Mellon's private business associates control it. (The Mellons also own the Koppers Co. which manufactures equipment for making artificial gas.) The Mellons are at least not opposed to vast business consolidations, which violate no laws. They have shared through their various companies in many a vast concretion of interests, and Wall Street is certain that their $100,000,000 Brooklyn Union Gas will go into Consolidated...