Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Were this merely a question of military drill, as most men recall it from their own high school days, it would be one thing. We have here, however, a frank proposal to extend military training, compulsory so far as possible, and under the management and control of the War Department, to public schools and colleges throughout the United States. This at a time when, perhaps in all world history, it is most important to avoid stimulating the war spirit...
...vain was it that Mr. Pinchot rallied' the church forces to his side and called to his coal miner friends?they cast but 320,000 votes for him. Mr. Vare, secure in his control of the Philadelphia machine and failing to gain a majority in most of the rest of the state, yet gathered with the single cry of "Beer" about 90,000 votes more than Mr. Pepper, almost 255,000 votes more than Mr. Pinchot...
...civilization to create burdens it cannot carry and to set up a suicidal complexity of organization. Our civilization and the educational system it has produced may have to run their cycle until they break. But even if we suspect ourselves to be the victims of a process we cannot control, it is dangerous to admit it, and to surrender to it is simply to set ahead the date of our debacle. We must not rest content with a coward's refuge in unrelated specialisms...
...Progress in American agriculture will be achieved through self-government and not, as some would have us believe, through paternal control by the Federal Government...
...control of these regions there has long been considerable confused rivalry among European interests, rivalry which was seemingly set at rest by the San Remo treaty of 1920. This left the U. S. out of consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...