Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With McKinley and Cannon, Tsar Reed held control of the Rules Committee, framed programs which he would announce thus: "Gentlemen, William and Joseph and I have decided to perpetuate the following outrage." Speaker Reed once characterized his opponents as follows...
...ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...chart of the Morgan family of financiers, with photographs, was both arresting and instructive among the exhibits. Beginning with Joseph Morgan (born 1790), who gained control of a Massachusetts stage-coach system, to the present John Pierpont Morgan and his children, who control railroad, steamship, telephone, telegraph and wireless systems, the family has shown a consistent "inheritance of capacity for organization and financial leadership...
...Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout its entire history...
...work done in courses and the tutorial and individual work done in a student's field of concentration contribute, each in its own measure, toward the education of which the Bachelor's degree is the tangible evidence. But at the last those who give courses become jealous of control over the result. Is it fair to the student, or wholly in keeping with the professed idea of the divisional examination for honors, that he may lose the distinction degree earned in his field because of a failure to meet exactly some prejudice that requires a stated number...