Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief features of Mr. Brown's plan: the merging of the War and the Navy Departments into a Department of National Defense, the creation of a Secretary of Communications to control the Post Office and supervise the telephones and telegraphs, the establishment of an Education and Welfare Department. Prohibition enforcement would be taken from the Treasury and given to the Department of Justice, and other similar transfers would be made...
...able to do elsewhere would be to make fertilizer for the farmer. And that is the sole reason why John W. Weeks and scores of corporation lawyers have exerted their cunning to prevent me. ... It would be well worth while for the waterpower and fertilizer financiers who control this situation to pay $100,000,000 if thereby they can retain the endless millions which they now make through exorbitant prices. My offer is still before Congress. I shall not withdraw it. There is nothing whatever for me to explain. There is nothing that John W. Weeks can explain though...
...Oxford, retired after his three years of service as Vice Chancellor of the University. He it was who banned Grand Guignol plays, closed the fashionable Bullingdon Club and Blue Riband, placed certain cafes out of bounds and objected to Miss A. Maude Royden (lecturer), Marie C. Stopes (birth control), George Lansbury (Socialist). He once called in the police to analyze supposedly powder-poisoned chocolates sent him by annoyed undergraduates. The police found tooth powder. He was succeeded by Dr. Joseph Wells...
...interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right-250,000,000 people is enough to be on earth at any one time...
...championship, met stiff opposition from the Hannington Coleman combination winning the third set by a 12-10 count. Wheeler and Briggs quickly got the jump on their opponents and took the first set 6-3. By this time, however, Coleman had his overhead stroke and his service in excellent control, and with Harrington succeeded in taking...