Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question to be debated will be one of Chinese independence, and will be worded as follows: "Resolved, That the Western Powers should recognize the Nanking Nationalist Government as a first step toward surrendering political control over the Chinese tariff and foreign policy and gradually abandoning the extraterritorial features of the concessions...
...argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position to the acid test of a general election; but no overwhelming loss occurred; the Liberals and Conservatives still hold the balance of power; the Laborites control the Municipal Council in only seven towns and their gains were made chiefly in the industrial centres, while their most notable loss was in the radical stronghold of Glasgow...
...this irrigation system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
...Latin America's $375,400,000. The Far East and other corners of the world received $121,340,000. Alarm. Struggling to assert industrial supremacy, Europe, led by Germany, is challenging U. S. trade in world markets by the establishment of huge cartels for control of production and fixation of prices. Recent affiliations of foreign chemical and steel interests are belligerent gestures (TIME, Oct. 31). These are the views of Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, adviser to the Chemical Foundation Inc.,* who, in addressing the Salesmen's Association of the American Chemical Industry at the Machinery Club...
...BUILDERS OF AMERICA-Ellsworth Huntington & Leon F. Whitney -Morrow ($3.50). Unlike some advocates of birth control who whine for an indiscriminate decrease in the world-birth rate, Authors Huntington, able Yale environist, and Whitney, able Secretary of the American Eugenics Society, with many a diagram and graph, powerfully defend their contention that the intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies...