Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DENBY'S resignation was demanded in Congress because he had approved the transfer of the control of the Naval Oil Reserves to the Department of the Interior...
...Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer told the House Naval Affairs Committee that Secretary of the Navy Denby, and not former Secretary of the Interior Fall, had originated the plan of transferring the control of the Oil Reserves from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. Both Rear Admiral Latimer and Rear Admiral Gregory testified that they believed the leases were advantageous to the Government...
...leases legally made? The act giving the Secretary of the Navy general powers over the Naval Oil Reserves was passed during the Wilson Administration. Its wording is admittedly loose and subject to dispute. Whether the Secretary of the Navy had power to delegate this control to the Secretary of the Interior, or the President had the power to do so by executive order?as was done before the leases in question were made?is a legal point
...prevent disease and suffering, to judge such situations on the basis of eventual good to the community as a whole, and not allow a well-proven instrument of preventive medicine to be destroyed or neglected because of an accident the cause of which is known and therefore under control...
...result in the former's favor. Elected by a powerful machine Mr. Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts showed little more than that he was a conscientious executive. Mr. Johnson, elected Governor of California by his own efforts with the aid of only one newspaper, revested in the people the control of the state government from the Southern Pacific Railroad and forced a host of humanitarian laws through the legislature that lifted the state at once to a high place among our most progressive states. As a campaigner Mr. Johnson compared well with the late Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Coolidge...