Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest among the numerous notes which complete the Review is an article on The Constitutionality of the Federal Relief Measures, discussing the Resettlement Administration. Under the caption of Legislation is a treatment of the recent Johnson Act which denies Federal District Courts control of State Public Utilities Commissions and at the same time returns the jurisdiction to the State courts...
...House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control the policies of the only organization in Harvard which deals with outside interests more than nominally...
...last week an American Airlines pilot about to take off from Newark Airport with a load of passengers in a Douglas DC-3, discovered in time's nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines...
...agreement with their insurance companies not to disclose accident causes until the Bureau of Air Commerce makes its official statement. This is to avoid premature damage suits. To avoid similar tragedies, United and other users of DC-3's immediately ordered leather boots to be fitted around all control columns, covering the V-shaped well. Spotting this innovation at Newark, the New York Herald Tribune's crack Aviation Editor Carl B. Allen immediately understood it, broke the story in a front-page scoop...
...eloquence, they now ratified a national Federation constitution, elected him president with a roar, planned an aggressive national crusade to convince the country's legislators of wildlife conservation's important place in the national picture of land utilization, forest preservation, water purification, erosion and flood control. This year will be devoted largely to propaganda and fundraising, climaxed by a Wildlife Restoration Week beginning Feb. 20, 1938. After that Congress can expect a high-powered Conservation Lobby to settle down in Washington beside Labor, the Farmers and the American Legion...