Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ninth, set up a court of 25 responsible nonpolitical men representing business, labor and agriculture to direct Federal Reserve policies and thus take that control of credit out of the hands of politicians...
...great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated $150,000,000 invested in plant, who last year made some $140,000,000 from time sales, and gave a 24-hour free show 365 days to a whole nation...
...group of advertisers, but of a wide sector of newspaper advertisers. Newspaper advertising is now placed somewhat, if not largely, through nationwide advertising agencies. ... As advisers the advertising agencies may exercise unbelievably powerful pressure upon newspapers. There is grave danger that in the coming decade . . . this capacity for organized control of newspaper opinion through the political advisers of national advertisers who in turn are paid to control public opinion may constitute a new threat to the freedom of the press...
...which condition Harvard and have helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical...
Cooperation with the government is indeed of fundamental importance, though the vicissitudes of politics should have absolutely no control over the plan of study. The middle course necessarily will be more difficult to follow while criticism will rage continually on all sides. But such problems the Littauer School will have to face with farsightedness and efficiency, if it expects to travel far on the road to better government...