Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flood Control levy this year, or $201,000,000 if Flood Control is postponed. More still, the manufacturers took square issue with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, whose insistence on a far larger tax-cut than the Administration approves is frequently represented to be the voice of Industry...
...authorizing $6,499,500 for improving Army airports. C, Passed a bill authorizing the leasing of public lands for airports. C. Debated a bill providing $38.50 for a Nicaraguan woman, whose dress was torn by U. S. Marines; raised the amount to $138.50 and passed it. C. Debated Flood Control...
Congressmen do their hardest, most important work off the floor. The real storm centre of Flood Control last week, was in the House Committee room where the irresistible legislative urge was encountering the immovable Coolidge ultimatum (see p. 8). On the floor of the House, pending the Bill's actual reading, the debate was general. It became more general when stentorian Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin arose and pointing his large finger at a puffy, untidy figure in one of the back seats, demanded to know what he was doing there...
...Representative. Then for bribery in his election, he was as Mr. Schafer bluntly put it "kicked out of the Senate." Mr. Schafer roared that Mr. Lorimer, aside from his political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control, for the reason that Mr. Lorimer was personally interested in Flood Control. His William Lorimer Lumber Co. owns land in the area where the U. S. was to buy floodways under the terms of the pending Bill. Let Mr. Lorimer get out, roared Mr. Schafer...
...boss explained that his lumber company owned only 1,000 acres in the proposed floodway; that flood waters neither harmed nor helped his timber; that he was not seeking to sell anything to the U. S., would give his thousand acres. He said he had been interested in flood control work for 30 years...