Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
...Demands were made on China by Tapan on Jan. 18, 1915, were allegedly to secure: 1) China's recognition of arrangements made between Japan and Germany relative to German rights in Shantung and Kiaochow. 2) The consolidation of Japanese hegemony in Manchuria. 3) Control of China's iron output. 4) The military superiority of Japan. Subsequent events proved the above fears largely unfounded...
...richly endowed university do not need to earn their salaries by intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into excess...
...Hungarian proposal to exclude flammenwerfen (flame projectors) from the list of controllable weapons was carried. Hungary pointed out that these weapons were already barred by International Law. The U. S. immediately moved a resolution to control all component parts...
...finally adopted as a compromise between the High and Low Church parties of the day. But that it should be revised Catholic-ward is unthinkable to the majority of Britishers. The possibility of such an event arises chiefly from the fact that Parliament has relinquished much of its control of the Church to ecclesiastics, and among the latter Anglo-Catholics are comparatively strong...