Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles County by 400,000 votes while the rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control of oil lands, especially those lying off shore beneath the sea, which are now being tapped by private interests...
...went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...
...gave Japanese capitalists the jitters. Ostensibly the War Minister spoke to warn Japan of Communist dangers and the need of greater efforts to down China, but General Itagaki sounded as though he had just been studying the history of how Russia has subordinated the forces of production to State control and developed heavy industry for military purposes...
...Government should undertake planning and control!" thundered the War Minister. "Japan must turn from light industries to heavy and from capitalism to the control principle. The present Incident [war in China] is expected to bring about a big economic turning point and the firm establishment of the basic industries of Japan in this sense. Thus will appear the general power of the State, in combining military and productive constructive powers in the new era that is expected...
...obliged by its Constitution to pay first, then expropriate. Last week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad, the Republic has already piled up external debts of some...