Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sarcastic" letter to the Police Commission, Mayor Curley says that "a better spirit of cooperation between the Republican agencies in control of the enforcement of the Volstead, Act in Democratic Boston would in a measure solve the bootlegging problem in our city. Bootlegging in Boston is a Republican proposition and the odium for its continued existence rests with the dominant party in the State". This is indeed sarcasm. Perhaps Democratic Boston prefers to patronize Republican bootleggers, but to say the least, that is not a very loyal thing to do. The Democratic Party has always been especially noted...
First, fall examinations for admission should be discontinued except in the cases of men who through sickness or other circumstances beyond their control are unable to take the examinations in June. These cases will have to be taken up individually by the Committee on Admissions...
Several new features will be incorporated in the new structure, such as apartments and recreational rooms for tenants on the upper floors, halls for conventions, a new automatic control elevator system. The unusual size of the plot has permitted the planning of large single room areas, which are expected to prove desirable to many lines of business...
...Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...five minutes for the deciding credit which fell to Dixon. The score of the last game, 15-2, gives positive indication of the superiority of the Harvard captain. In this he was as calm and steady as at the beginning of the afternoon. Peabody seemed to lose his customary control, and with precision Dixon settled the match...