Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cancer Commission, Assistant Dean of Harvard, Assistant Director of the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics. He is Clarence Cook Little, President of the University of Michigan since 1925. One expects such a man to keep on doing...
...shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently to exercise control...
...representing 22,000.000 Protestants. Its purpose would be to act as a clearing house for funds donated for the dissemination of Protestant religious education. It would be in the control of trustees appointed by various interdenominational organizations and by the American Bankers' Association; funds would be distributed to approved teaching organiza- tions without denominational discrimination...
Abraham Lincoln was but faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
...Paramount -Famous -Lasky group wanted them, as did the First National and the Metro-Goldwyn. Mr. Fox bid highest, won. With more than 300 houses in his circuit he has assured display for the films his three California studios produce. Only Paramount - Famous -Lasky. who control Publix Theatres, outstring him in the cinema field...