Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insistence on a large tax cut (TIME, Dec. 5), the Chamber announced- at least its national president, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all U. S. Chamber men* believed the Federal Government should bear the entire cost of Mississippi flood control. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge had mentioned 80% of flood control costs as a more-than-generous portion for the Federal Government to bear...
...Armada." * Mrs. Pearcy F. Eames of Manhattan and Mrs. E. S. Rochester of Washington. * For a description of how the U. S. Chamber's referendum on tax-cutting was taken in at least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President Pierson announced last week that a flood control referendum was taken among all the 1,500 local Chambers of Commerce by sending them the recommendations of a committee of engineers and business men who surveyed the Mississippi flood area this autumn. Accompanying the recommendations was a list of arguments against them. The recommendations favored Federal assumption...
...Appointed committees, with Republicans in control...
...Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff of the city, linked themselves up with certain robber bands from the country districts. "The movement, which was reported as frankly Communistic...
...Financial gain formulates the policy of the men who control the metropolitan papers," cried he. "The Times boasted that exploitation of Lindbergh had increased its circulation, and the World that its circulation had been increased by printing details about Dempsey and Tunney. These were proper subjects...