Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
...government, and therefore implies that its measures are carried out forcibly. One can not withdraw from a government, even a socialistic one under any conditions. Participation in a cooperative league is entirely voluntary. The large cooperative organization also differs from the usual government in that it emphasizes decentralization in control, while advocating a centralized administration...
...conference on candidates or policies the men who are called to that conference are those whose opinions will be taken by groups of the delegates at the convention. Even when the state is a direct primary state, party machinery has a very large influence and those who control the party machinery are the men whose influence counts...
...eleven-day case for the Wets, ably managed by Senators Bruce of Maryland and Edge of New Jersey, came to a close with a vigorous speech from President Samuel H. Church of Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh. He accused professional Protestant reform-fanatics of seeking ecclesiastical control of the U. S. Government...
...Methodist Church is out-heroding Herod in its demand for the religious control of our people. They have organized their Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, have a building of their own in Washington and, with the zeal of Torquemada, are striving for the ecclesiastical mastery of private conduct, not through the Gospel but through...