Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that the players would not get so large an increase in the minimum salary as they demanded ($75 per week), but that they had achieved a greater measure of control over the doings of the organization...
...clatter the teacups over the drama. A feature of the tournament was the first appearance of the Lighthouse Players of the New York Association for the Blind, sightless actresses who moved with confidence, intelligence, and only occasional awkwardness through My Lady Dreams, one of the two plays attacking birth control in the tournament...
...thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven." But John J. Eagan, President of the American Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Atlanta, Ga., interpreting the Scriptures liberally, bequeathed all the common stock of his Company to the employes in trust. The trustees control the Company, under the injunction " to deliver the Company's products to persons requiring it, at actual cost, which shall be considered the lowest possible price consistent with the maintenance and extension of the Company's plant or plants and 'business and the payment of reasonable salaries and wages...
...mere sophistry to declare that "this country became great and prosperous because it was the least governed of all nations" and that Europe retrograded because of the "load of bureaucratic control". Natural resources are the keynotes to modern industrial progress--the United States had them and comparatively Europe did not. Industry in this country has now reached the point which Europe reached some time ago where it is no longer so dynamic that governmental control can prevent natural progress. And rather than argue for a return to unfettered competition, which as far as it was permitted quickly forced remedial measures...
...Clarence Mackay's fervid and interesting attack on the modern tendency to place life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under bureaucratic control" is unfortunately based upon a slight error of historical analysis. New Jersey's well advertised Blue Laws unmistakably prove that "the pursuit of happiness", especially on Sundays, was carefully regulated by the government long before the present generation of "self-seeking people" arrived on the scene. And if Mr. Mackay pushed his historical inquiries a little further he would discover that the price of bread and ale in England was wont to be fixed by town authorities...