Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spokesmen announce that 10,000 people would go to Washington to lobby for the flood control legislation prepared at a conference which Mayor Thompson lately called independently of Federal agencies...
...chemical industry. Also opposed to the institution is the American Chemical Society, whose Secretary, Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, last month wrote to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg: "The American Chemical Society is very strongly opposed to the creation of any international centre for the control of chemistry, whether it be located in France or elsewhere." The Department of State answered that already, in August 1926, it had declined the French government's invitation to join the movement...
Convention. At Houston, Tex., several thousand bankers met last week for the annual convention of the American Bankers' Association. Representing 67% of all U. S. banks, they control $43,397,552,540 in banking assets...
...question to occupy the attention of the debaters two of whom will be members of the University and one probably a faculty member, will be: "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...
...those who believe that the Soviets are not at all to blame, adequately represent the situation. Such a condition is inconceivable to dwellers in American cities. It is safe to say, however, that this mass of irresponsible and unsheltered children, too numerous for the orphanages of any nation to control, will serve in the next ten years as a test of the Soviet's ability. If they neither die off, nor grow up into gangs of adult criminals, but find a place in the social order, unlimited praise will be given to the government which rescues them...