Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
Bluntly Premier Nahas told the delegates what he wanted-immediate abolition of fiscal privileges for foreigners. If the Conference met him on that he would agree to a gradual assumption of Egyptian court control...
Yoga is an ingrown Hindu philosophical system whose object is fusing the "individual soul" with the "universal soul." Hindu yogins achieve that mystic goal after years of practice in emotional serenity and bodily control. The desired physical relaxation of yoga is achieved by means of contortions which "purify" the body. U. S. devotees of yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed...
...HAVEN, Apr. 21 (Special to CRIMSON): Agitation for the promotion of basketball to a major sport, which was begun at Yale before it was recommended at Harvard, received its final and official benediction from the Board of Athletic Control last night...
...what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded on more than fantasy. Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board in his recent FORTUNE article on how to control booms & depressions listed manipulations of gold prices as a likely tool...