Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizations so far as those policies and actions have not affected scholarship and academic standing." He felt that if censorship were to be exercised, it should come from the students themselves through the Council, but that he doubted whether at the present time there were any need for such control...
...Flood Control. Directly affecting the Treasury, and therefore the degree of wise tax reduction, is the most pressing extra-budget item of all flood control in the Mississippi Basin. The Administration's $296,400,000 program, of which the States benefited were to pay $37,080,000, besides furnishing rights of way, was scrapped in February by the House Committee on Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem...
Giuseppe Cosulich, U. S. agent for the Cosulich Line, Italian shipping concern, last week confirmed reports of the purchase by his family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...
...stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure car depression of the early part of the War, as a nucleus for the development in 1925 of the Chrysler, now a highly successful international leader...
...Rose. Critics were not allowed to see it until after a special performance for the Eastern Star society and a matinee for ladies only. It depicts a wholesome Irish family, whose oldest child, Doris, has been seduced by aristocratic Jack Conover. Jack's aunt, an advocate of birth control and kindred arts, persuades Doris to consult a physician. Doris insists on seeing her good family physician, who eloquently refuses to perform an abortion, rebukes Aunt Conover, suggests that Doris and Jack get married. It is meanwhile discovered that Jack is really the son of Aunt Conover by an Irish...