Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee, he promised to "lift the lid" at the hearings and give the Wets all the latitude they wanted to make their points against the 18th Amendment. In addition to the repeal resolutions, arguments will be heard on 2-75% beer and on the Canadian system of government liquor control. Prime speaker for the Wets: Representative James Montgomery Beck, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., expert guide through the legalistic mazes of the Constitution...
...wouldn't want to restore the old condition but I do believe we could frame and fashion a new system of control that would not be Prohibition and would make the law enforceable and practical. What a sorry state this country is in today! Revenues have fallen off. Crimes have multiplied. We are under the reign of the bludgeon and of force. The very church, its bishops and ministers, cheer all sorts of pain and shootings; it applauds force. Have we lost the right of conscience? Are we slaves? We need emancipation ! . . . The Lord could have destroyed all alcohol...
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...stockholders were those of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., personified by Walter Sherman Gifford, A. T. & T. president. Mr. Gifford told the Senate Interstate Commerce committee that, while he favored U. S. regulation "in principle," he opposed it in practice because, in his opinion, it would annihilate control of communications by State agencies just as State regulation of railroads has vanished...
...Michigan to establish a Federal Communications Commission. This Commission would regulate valuation, profits and service rates of telephone and telegraph companies. Theoretically such companies are now regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission but that potent agency, already overwhelmed with its railroad work, has never attempted to exercise communications control beyond receiving financial statements and ordering changes in accounting methods...