Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, a regional meeting of representatives of 46,000 United Automobile Workers loyal to embattled President Homer Martin condemned Leader Lewis' proposed intervention in their troubled union affairs, voted to suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking...
...housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour and labor administrators than the U. S. Supreme Court exercises over their national counterparts. When admiring Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. proposed Mr. Smith for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, many a Republican cheered. Al Smith smiled...
...twelve children, including the quintuplets, received the blessing of Pope Pius XI, brought from Vatican City by onetime President Frank Blied of the Catholic Central Verein. Said Mr. Blied: "By the grace of God, this is a blessing to the entire community. This is a different theory than birth control. This is the emancipation of humanity...
...economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the world agricultural business, the U. S. is prepared to take "aggressive action"; 2) the world would be a whole lot better if every nation had a crop-control program. Export subsidies Secretary Wallace blithely dismissed as a "type of economic warfare," which may be justified "in certain emergencies" under "exceptional and compelling circumstances...
...general program: "It is probably more effective to assist competition rather than legislate the large unit out of existence. . . . Where a high degree of competition will accomplish the result [a business system that actually works], that should be the method used. Where a high degree of cartelization under suitable control will accomplish the result, that should be the method. Where quasi-public owner ship produces the result, use that...