Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain Insull securities which he had acquired for $67,000. Mr. West took the position that his Insull connection was a thing of the past, but, even so, promised to withdraw from any matter affecting Insull interests. To Senator Norris and his fellow "Progressives," however, the adequate control of public utilities is the greatest issue in the country, and nothing would do but that the West appointment be rejected. The "power-trust" issue having been thus potently raised, many a liberal Senator joined in the Progressives' anti-West cry, but most Senators hoped they would be able to straddle...
...favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that it would be in the public interest to deal with this important question outside party atmosphere and by agreement...
...open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...President Little became director of the American Birth Control League. There should be fewer babies, he thought, no more "indiscriminate growth of families." Here he first clashed with citizens of Michigan who thought such opinions unfitting to the head of a state institution. Cheerily, Dr. Little answered that he would rather resign than be muzzled. Unmuzzled, he continued his presidency...
...young President with the black mustache and live black hair well knew the rift he was creating in Ann Arbor and Michigan opinion. In Lansing was Governor Fred Warren Green, able Republican lawyer, who liked to busy himself with education. The governor wanted more uni versity control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little...