Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reserve fund, and told Congress that a $225,000,000 tax cut would be safe if Congress would keep closely to the Treasury's budget figures. Up to last week Congress had already gone $25,000,000 beyond the budget figures, and still had to make a flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than $180,000,000, and perhaps no tax cut at all, would be recommended instead...
Chicago, like New York, like many another U. S. city, clamors for Home Rule, against a State legislature controlled by rural representatives. More than 50% of the U. S. population is urban. One generation more, prophesy the experts, and two-thirds of the population will be urban. Urban communities complain that control by country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
...into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against...
Albania was formerly under the control of the Turks, and as such had no voice in the government of the section. The sanitation was primitive and education unknown. When Albania was freed and set up as an independent state, the people were in too impoverished a condition to effect their own welfare...