Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That they withdraw their government in Manila from private business enterprises; 3) That they amend their land laws so as to aid in the large scale development of the rubber industry (in such event, the U. S. Congress will not interfere with these laws); 4) That stronger U. S. control be exercised in the Moro districts to prevent Filipino high-handed rule...
...NORTH AND SOUTH SHAKE SWEATY HANDS OVER PLOW" -Thus yelped a headline in the Chicago Tribune. The cause was a convention of 80 farm organizations at St. Louis, Mo., where midwestern and southern delegates demanded immediate legislation by Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers...
Thereupon, with General Andrews and Secretary Mellon agreeing, the Treasury Department announced that it would ask Congress to provide for the organization of a private corporation under Federal control to buy all medicinal spirits now in warehouses and distilleries and to manufacture additional necessary liquors. The Government would name the original Board of Directors and would audit the books to assure the sick public of reasonably priced whiskey. It will require $150,000,000 to finance such a corporation. If the Government cannot find proper private capital, it will ask Congress for an appropriation...
...government. This program we have not yet completed. In spite of this the Filipino politicians cry for "complete, immediate and absolute independence." They would prefer (so they tell us in their speeches) a government by their own people, no matter how had, to one in which we have any control...
...much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned by law to the American executive. Lord Northcliffe pointed out that the Filipinos enjoy a greater measure of liberty than even the various American states...