Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transferred the powers of the Corporation to the Shipping Board which in turn was authorized to perform such of its duties as it deemed advisable through the Corporation. Now the actual business of operating Government ships is to be turned back to the Emergency Fleet Corporation under the control of one man. It is probable that legislation will be undertaken to carry out this policy in full...
...unified control is to be placed in the hands of Rear Admiral Palmer who, during the War, served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and later as Chief of Staff of a division of the Atlantic Battle Fleet. After the War he resigned. He was made Shipping Board Director for Brazil. Of late he has been attached to the Washington offices of the Board. On Jan. 5 he was to have sailed for London to represent the Board abroad. Instead he stays to be dictator over the Government's shipping policy as no Chairman of the Shipping Board...
Under the calm exterior, burning fires have been fanned to white heat. It is common knowledge that President Millerand and Premier Poincare are not on friendly terms, although their official positions prevent a complete break. The Radicals, who to a large extent control the Senate, and who are not to be despised in the Chamber of Deputies, are violently opposed to Poincaré's German policy. The Royalists, although backing Poincaré, believe that the Premier has not gone far enough. And there is some discontent among the Republicans. These broadly stated facts are symptomatic of the concealed...
...consolidation and transportation is 80 years old. But they will hardly be surprised to learn that New England, and particularly Massachusetts, generated the idea. The town, or township, was the first unit to displace the unsatisfactory "district." In New England, where the town was the unit of local control in all departments of life, districts were abolished as early as 1840; and in 1869 the first step towards community transportation of pupils was taken...
...stamp of a real publisher's personality always descends upon his properties. The gold may be old, but the mintage is the publisher's. Everyone knew that there would be a new face on the coin when Cyrus H. K. Curtis took control of the New York Evening Post (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week, readers examined the new currency. It had undergone a great Curtismorphosis...