Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
...press, once established in this country, became the property of Mrs. Glover, who in a few years was to marry Henry Dunster, president of Harvard College. Thus came the press under the control of the College, securely anchored in New England...
According to the report the orators of the two Schools will argue the subject: "Resolved, That the federal and state governments control water power." The Harvard team will support the affirmative side of the argument, to be opposed on the negative by the contingent from New Haven...
...first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times by its publisher and control ling owner, Adolph S. Ochs. The first volume is a dignified maroon tome. The biographies are entertaining, lucid, informative. There are no pictures. The publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan) are selling the first volume for $12.50, will sell the complete set 6 years hence...
...Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel family would sell control of" "General Motors of Germany" to General Motors of the U. S. Angry nationalists, worried competitors, planned an automobile trust to battle U. S. production methods. Daimler-Benz began to dicker with the Belgian Minerva...