Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Investigation. By the terms of the resolution the Committee is authorized "to investigate and report to the Senate whether there is any organized effort being made to control public opinion and the action of Congress upon legislative matters through propaganda or by the use of money, by advertising, or by the control of publicity, and especially to inquire what if any such methods are being employed to control the action of Congress upon revenue measures, and whether or not the profiteers of the War are now contributing to defeat the soldiers' adjusted compensation bill by money or influence, and what...
...ended the battle, with the U. S. Pacific fleet destroyed. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hamilton V. Bryan, Admiral McCully's flag officer, disguised as a civilian with a cargo of candles, representing dynamite, penetrated canal guards and placed his explosives at important points, the control chamber of the Gatun locks, etc. He later disguised himself as a correspondent, chatted with Blue officers at their head- quarters, read papers on their desks, cut telephone wires at the Gatun headquarters. His exploit was discounted, however, because complete restrictions such as would be made in actual war-time were not placed on civilians...
Premier Poincare had the French experts on the Committee acquainted with the views of the French Government. He instructed them to incorporate into any plan which the experts might suggest the present Franco-Belgian control in the Ruhr; to propose Allied or international supervision of German tax-collecting and expenditures; to suggest control or supervision of German resources, such as customs, railroads, tobacco and alcohol monopolies, coal production, which should be set aside for payment of reparations; to make it clear that France will have no objection to other Allies joining her in utilization of the Ruhr...
...Lenin. For two years he has been absent from the Kremlin. Trotsky, his partner, has likewise disappeared, "kidnapped" by the chief of Soviet police. Just who are to replace these two men does not appear, but it is apparent that in the near future the Bolshevist party will yield control to some larger group...
...memory of Nicolai Lenine may continue to control the destiny of the Russian Soviet Republic or quarrels among her new leaders may destroy the strength of that influence: these possibilities were mentioned by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 last night when asked to comment on Moscow dispatches carried in the evening papers reporting the death of Russia's Red premier...