Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there was Governess Ross who talked politics rather than birth control. She said that she had taken her defeat for re-election "like a woman." Although the League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization, yet there was much boom-business for Nellie Tayloe Ross as 1928 Democratic candidate for Vice President. Had not Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith said that she typified "the woman citizen at her best...
...hold aloof-having recently closed even her diplomatic and consular office at the League Secretariat. As M. Briand and Sir Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week, and as the Council assembled, it was reported to have been momentously determined that the Allied Military Commission of Control (over Germany) will soon be replaced by a supervisory League Commission, a great step in soothing German amour propre...
...preoccupations are profit and power there exists a mere pair of newspapers whose editors can call their souls their own. The onetime (1921-26) Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Reading, has recently sought to enlarge this number by his purchase of the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) from Lloyd George control; but the "old guard" actually consists of only the Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism. King George has been pleased to convey officially...
...Times, Lord Northeliffe achieved his greatest ambition by purchasing it in 1908. However to his eternal credit Major John Jacob Astor, brother of Viscount Astor, purchased the Times from the Northcliffe estate (1922), restored ita long and honorable independence, and has transferred its control in perpetuity to a board on which it is hopei will always sit the Lord Chief Justice and the Governor of the Bank of England...
...rubber manufacturers stand as such forestalled consumers. They use 75% of the world's rubber and control very little of production. Since it happens that the current price of rubber is 36? a pound the Stevenson Plan will call for a 10% plantation restriction by Feb. 1. Yet there are fairly large stocks of crude and scrap rubber in the U. S. The price will not jump wildly...