Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along will make all the cuts and be responsible to no one in his choice of candidates and application of coaching methods. This centering of authority on one man was adopted by all the leading colleges in the East last season. The turning over to Coach Stevens of complete control in matters pertaining to crew marks a big step forward in Harvard rowing policy...
...report on the League control of Austria was read and carried. It showed that taxation exceeded estimates and that savings banks deposits had increased 500% since the early part of the present year when the League adopted Austria as its ward...
...property, which means that the Allies will be assured of a fixed sum of money on account of reparations as well as security. Herr Gustav Stresemann is expected to call off passive resistance as soon as his Government has received Franco-Belgian assurances that Germany will be given complete control in the Ruhr and that German sovereignty will be allowed to reassert itself in the Rhineland...
...Epirus, the Italians strategically if temporarily realized their dream of turning the Adriatic Sea into an Italian Lake. Italy owns the whole of the Istrian peninsula in the North and by the occupation of Corfu she blocked the Straits of Otranto in the South. This meant that she could control practically the entire southbound trade of Central Europe, which passes through the ports of Trieste and Fiume...
Informed circles have it that the German renunciation is in effect a compromise. France and Belgium are expected to withdraw their military forces from the Ruhr and to permit the Germans to exercise complete control. France, Belgium and Germany lost heavily in the Ruhr occupation; either side can be said to have won, except by closing a most disastrous episode in the history of Europe...