Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the rock-ribbed Republican New York Herald Tribune supplied the following comment in its news columns last week: "It is declared that the real reason why he has been selected for the Interstate Commerce Commission is that the Mellon forces in Pennsylvania have set out to control the Pennsylvania delegation in 1928 for President Coolidge and that Mr. Woods, in this influential Federal post, will be in a situation to be helpful...
...Capo del Governo contracted as he formulated a definition. Soon it boomed from his heavy lips: "Persecution! Recall the meaning of that word. Persecution only begins where no reasonable proportion is observed between the force used in compulsion and the importance of the interests which it seeks to control. Deportation for single political or social offenders has existed at all times. We do not send these people abroad to ferment in other countries, but merely put them in a political and moral quarantine. We are perfectly justified in doing so, but take care that where at all justifiable mercy shall...
...Nagybanya, Regent of this "Kingless Kingdom," rode through the streets of Budapest like a monarch in his own right. But last week not one of his close friends was elected to the Lower House, while the National Unity Party of Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen won absolute control with 213 seats...
...have been prodigious. He put down an armed attempt by King Karl (died 1922) to regain the throne in 1921. He visited Rome, Paris and London in 1923, persuaded those governments to reverse decisions of their own Reparations Commission which would have crushed Hungary financially; and substituted the League control of Hungarian finance whereby the country "came back" under the fiscal dictature of a U. S. League of Nations Commissioner, Jeremiah Smith Jr. of Boston (TIME, July...
...belligerent, and in order to render more effective the defense of the Canal will, if necessary in the opinion of the United States Government, turn over to the United States in all the territory of the Republic of Panama, during the period of actual or threatened hostilities, the control and operation of wireless and radio communication, aircraft, aviation centres and aerial navigation...