Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boxing eliminated as an intercollegiate sport by committee on athletic control...
Illinois insurance laws have been flayed for years by insurance experts. Up to 1933 the enforcement was worse than the laws. Officially entrusted to a special director of the Department of Trade & Commerce, control over insurance companies frequently fell into the hands of lawyer-politicians who were not above doing a good turn at the expense of policyholders. The extent to which Illinois had become an insurance playground became abruptly clear in 1932, when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash...
Fifteen men entered the course without fellowships. The group represents almost every phase of street and highway management, including police enforcement, motor vehicle administration, driver psychology, education, highway planning and design and tra control engineering...
...graduates of this year's course has been offered a traffic position in some city, county, state or federal agency. These men will bring to their positions, in addition to their fine back-ground training, a highly specialized knowledge of all of the various phases of traffic control and administration...
...eagerness with which these men have been employed is significant of the need which exists. It is, furthermore, proof of the fact that public administrators are coming to recognize that the control of traffic is not a casual problem nor one which can be solved satisfactorily by untrained personnel. One of the most hopeful signs is the fact that a number of the graduates have been given positions in jurisdictions where they are not residents and where no conceivable political influence could have been brought to bear upon their selection...