Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell and Maria" has put his back against a steam roller; but he will have plenty of assistants. The surviving individualists are preparing for a finish-fight...
Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
...lines to express what I believe to be the most important thing that anyone of my passing generation can say to the generation which is now in college and which in a few years' time will be taking over from the hands of those who now control them the destinies of the nations of the world...
...forces on our side are strong: the human instinct of cooperation, the universal desire for equal justice, the passionate hatred of every people in the world for the barbarous arbitrament of the sword. They are forces which are seeking for expression; forces which will need to be mobilized to control the policy of the government of every country...
...fourth, however, the Cushing batters got beyond Costo's control and five runs were brought in before Urreula was cut off at the plate for the third...