Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 5, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made him head of the War Industries Board. The Board exercised supervision over virtually the entire industrial fabric of the nation, with power to commandeer plants, purchase for the Allies, allocate materials, place contracts. Mr. Baruch's was the "broadest authority and most autocratic control ever vested in any individual...
...Harding, ex-Governor of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, was unofficially appointed High Commissioner of the League of Nations to control Hungarian finances under the League's loan plan (TIME...
With the undoubted connivance of the French, the Separatists (those who favor an entirely independent State) have been in control of the whole area since last November and much blood has been shed. At one time the whole affair seriously threatened Anglo-French relations, but, despite British investigations, the Separatists remained...
...warned the British proletariat that the Bolshevik Tree cannot yield good proletarian fruit until the capitalists are ousted from power. It demanded mass meetings to demonstrate in favor of the complete independence of Ireland, India, Egypt, credits for Russian nationalization of railways and mines, relief of unemployment, labor control of all sources of wealth, scrapping of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of armament...
...Chinese police of the legation quarter, who are under the control of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking, stopped the car. General Feng's soldiers "drew their revolvers and used threatening language"; then, "General Feng himself alighted and joined his soldiers in knocking down one of the police and beating...