Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making enemies. His downfall was forecast when he failed to put over a $23,625,000 fund for his Highway Department last June. The Republican Legislature, fuming because he kept it in session most of the summer, finally voted only $5,000,000 and placed it beyond his control. Meanwhile, sly Mr. Curley had been smiling his devious smile, filling his campaign chest, promising jobs to Massachusetts' 400,000 unemployed. When more than 500,000 Democrats turned out for the Hurley-Curley, they gave Mr. Curley nearly 3-to-2 victory over Mr. Hurley. Mr. Curley at once offered...
...remaining Czech State. . . . When Mr. Chamberlain asked me to agree to have plebiscites not in all parts of Czechoslovakia but only in the German districts I GAVE IN ! I also agreed to a German-Czech commission to supervise the plebiscite. ... I would also have accepted international police control! It was all only the practical realization of what Benes had already promised...
...fixed charges. Emphasizing that his proposal was not officially inspired, he pointed out its major difficulty: the necessity of changes in State laws to allow banks and insurance companies to invest in stocks. Preferred securities he maintained would be just as sound investments for banks if they carried voting control when dividends were in arrears, thereby giving preferred stockholders the right to force a change in management...
Censorship of the press has become a live issue on the Dartmouth campus this year, as University authorities there are moving to gain control of the "Dartmouth", Hanover undergraduate daily...
Various speakers pointed out that small businessmen numerically represent 90% of U. S. business, that they control over 18,000,000 votes, that the association is represented in 60% of the country's Congressional districts. No one would say how big the association is, except to place it kittenishly between 1,000 and 100,000. Probable size: 5,000 to 10,000. "If the membership is secret," said Mr. Emery, "no one knows how big a club you're swinging." He was not at all discouraged, he added, at the convention's small attendance. "After...