Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, had a "scoop" to the effect that Senator Norris would jump unequivocally for Smith, with a nationwide radio hookup for the occasion...
...seems to me that during the last two Republican administrations, in the absence of this necessary leadership, there has been what we might call a hidden control. There seems to be somebody pulling the strings from behind the scenes...
...strongly commended for facing squarely the problem of paying off debts incurred through none of its own doing. At the same time, however, that past Student Council deficits are being wiped out it might not be amiss to investigate the whole tangle of official undergraduate finance. Centralized and responsible control of all class and general undergraduate funds offers the most logical solution of future difficulties...
...Hale '31 is head of the finance committee, G. M. Merrill 1G is in charge of the membership committee, A. S. Gilmartin '31 is in charge of the speaker's committee, N. M. Sachs '29 is heading the absentee voting committee, while R. B. Regan '29 is in control of the communication committee...
...from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining non-partisan...