Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON reporter yesterday Andrew J. Peters '95, former mayor of Boston, termed the CRIMSON and Debating Council proposals on prohibition "an intelligent plan." "I believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...students who replied to the questionnaire, 458 said that they thought prohibition a failure. As a solution to the problem, 352 suggested government control, 101 were in favor of light wines and beer, 82 favored strict enforcement, and 65 declared for total repeal...
...Egypt's interests demand as strongly as our own," cried Pink-and-White, "that the British forces should not be withdrawn from Egypt! . . . Under British control Egypt has attained order and well-being greater than it has known for 2,000 years . . . duty of protecting the Egyptians . . . guard them against the inevitable tyranny of the Pashas!" Verdict: Pink-and-White has a tongue of talent, should prove a useful "regular" to the conservatives, seems to be the exact antithesis of Oliver Baldwin (son of Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin) who has grown a beard, turned Socialist...
...prime interest is the B. & O.'s merger with Reading which controls Jersey Central. B. & 0. owns 34% of Reading; New York Central owns 25%. General was the belief that N. Y. C. had agreed to transfer its Reading stock to B. & 0., thus giving B. & O. control and a guaranteed entry to New York. For B. &O. to be the first road to accept the Interstate Commerce Commission's merger plan was not surprising, for thus this great system has made a deliberate and successful effort to accommodate the U. S. Government. No rail president is more...
...from South America last week (TIME, Feb. 17), ominous thunderclouds of air trouble rumbled on the transatlantic horizon. Diplomatic protests from the U. S. and Germany were being launched at the actions of France, who, by devious and somewhat obscure methods, was making a determined effort to get control of South American air lanes...