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Word: controls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation has witnessed the holding of a dull and lifeless convention of political puppets in this very Hall. It has also witnessed the antics of what seemed to be a disorderly mob meeting in New York City, but which responded to boss control quite obediently in its voting. In Cleveland, there was one boss. In New York, there were several. In Cleveland, there was the chill hand of approaching dissolution upon the party. In New York, the fever of class, religious and sectional hatreds burned in its veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Progressives | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...organized banking interests which own the railroads, control credit and dominate the industrial life of the nation, will further oppress labor, rob the consumer, and, by extortionate railroad rates and dictation of the terms of credit, reduce agriculture to the level of the European peasantry, if longer permitted to control this Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Progressives | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Public ownership of the Nation's water power and creation of a public superpower system. Strict Strict public control and permanent conservation of all national resources, including coal, iron and other ores, oil and timber lauds,in the interest of the people. Promotion of public works in times of business depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette Platform | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Reconstruction of the Federal Reserve and Federal Farm loan systems to provide lor direct public control of the Nation's money and credit to make it available on fair terms to all, and National and State Legislatures to permit and promote cooperative banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette Platform | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Repeal of the Cummins-Esch law. Public ownership of railroads, with democratic operation with definite safeguards against bureaucratic control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette Platform | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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