Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer to show in an actual test what airplanes could do. He suggested that the battleship North Dakota be subjected to trial. (She must soon be used for target practice since she is outside the Disarmament Treaty quota.) He suggested that the Navy equip her with a radio control...
...wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
Senator Shipstead, in putting his proposal before the Senate showed a realization, even if a somewhat exaggerated one, of the important position of the United States in world finance. Control of international credit, he feels, gives the United States the "greatest power for good or evil that was ever given any nation in the world to control." He is doubtful of the wisdom with which this power is now being used. The doubts of Senator Shipstead are in many cases justified, but unfortunately his proposal raises the embarrassing question of whether the people of the United States are willing...
...true some have doubts of this birth control stuff...
...control" what they mean, when they vaunt...