Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief change in the pre-convention situation took place in Massachusetts, one of the Big Three (the others are Pennsylvania, New York) whose Republican bosses want uninstructed delegations with which to control the Convention. In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin Tufts ("Peter Bond") Fuller revolted against Boss William Morgan Butler, refused to be an instructed delegate and told the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company that "the next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith...
...They found, finally, this seeming paradox: that Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby had been demonstrated unfit to command the Control Force* and should be removed, yet that the rescue plans he approved and supervised "were logical, intelligent, and were diligently executed with good judgment and the greatest possible expedition...
...Admiral Brumby, on whose behalf it was contended that he had not been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...
Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...
Loree Merger. The I. C. C. suddenly ordered Leonor Fresnel Loree to explain why his railroad mergers proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away...