Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He has served continuously in the Senate since March 4, 1909. Only five Senators are senior to him in length of service. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), the Jones (Five & Ten) Law (1929), the 15 cruiser-construction bill (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Radio Control...
...exclaimed: "Think of it! In New York they call me a crazy Russian. . . . But I had complete control of myself. ... I seemed to be observing a drama rather than acting...
Impartial and expert is the Association. Last week it completed a reorganization which shifted its control from engineering to industrial leaders. Organized as the American Standard Engineering Standards Committee in 1917 by the American Societies of Civil Engineers, of Mechanical Engineers, American Institutes of Electrical Engineers, of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and American Society for Testing Materials, the Committee in 1919 expanded its membership to include U. S. Departments of War, Navy and Commerce. More members were added until in 1928 there were 37 member bodies. In March the American Home Economics Society was admitted to membership...
...Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops returned their attentions to the business of the day. Unexpected and most disturbing was the point-blank question put to the Bishops by the Rev. Edward Lyttelton, onetime headmaster of Eton, who demanded to know immediately what they thought about birth control- Said Dr. Lyttelton: "If contraception is not wrong in many cases it must be right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person...
...book now in use dates from 1611. * Great Britain has no restrictions against the teaching of birth control...