Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of Filipino political control, under the Jones Act, 300 infant children contracted the dread disease, and the colony went from bad to worse...
Indeed, an event of this kind in Manhattan has come to be incomplete without Mr. Collier, the boy from the South who has collected a fortune from his control of streetcar advertising. With befitting splendor, he played host to all 500 chiefs at Luna Park, dined them, sent them forth to seek amusements under the gaudy arc lights-free of charge...
...British proposal to exclude warships, submarines, air-and seaplanes and airships from control was passed by a small majority. The U.S. voted to exclude...
...Opium Conference at The Hague. During the Great War Bishop Brent was head of the Chaplain Service under the United States Government in France. In 1923 the government sent him over as a representative to the Advisory Board of the League of Nations in the matter of Narcotic Drug Control. He was also made President of the World Conference on Faith and Order...
...Lockwood Committee of the New York Legislature in the course of an investigation of the Manhattan housing shortage. Mr. Untermeyer charged in his letter that General Electric was "whitewashed" by onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, and that J. P. Morgan & Co. had "virtual control" of the Company. Mr. Manly added pepper to this highly-seasoned letter by declaring that Mr. Dwight Morrow, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. and classmate of President Coolidge, possessed an "overshadowing influence in the present administration." Then Owen D. Young, Chairman of General Electric, retorted sharply, denied that the Company possessed...