Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress, as everyone knows, is government by committee. By controlling the political composition of these off-stage organizations, the party in power controls the character of legislation they frame for enactment. Most potent of Senate committees is the Committee on Finance, dealing with taxation. To maintain control over it is a practical necessity for any Senate majority. Last week the rising tide of Western insurgency reached a high-water mark when the Regular Republicans virtually lost control of the Committee on Finance by the election of Senator Robert Marion La Follette, well-dressed young Wisconsin Insurgent, to that sub-Senate...
...Young's argument concerning threatened British control of world-communication to which Mr. Carlton took most pointed exception. "There is no menace," said he. "It [the menace] is one of the most fantastic bogies dressed up in my experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a "creaking, awkward, ponderous set-up." He said he could wish a business competitor no worse luck, than to be hooked up in such a system, maintained that his com pany and Radio Corp. "hold the British merger in the hollow of their hand...
...said he, "has the genius of Owen D. Young found more eloquent expression than in the framing of the terms he wanted us to agree to. The only trouble was, we were awake.' Mr. Young's terms, Mr. Carlton complained, would have put Radio Corp. "virtually in control of Western Union...
...cannot help but admire the dignity and big mindedness displayed by the Americans in the manner in which they assumed the control of Eastern Samoa. . . . No threats, no bad names. . . . Everything goes on serenely. . . . So it should. "The Mau of American Samoa is jubilant over the turn of affairs. Headquarters for the Mau have been built. At the opening ceremony the Governor [Captain Graham] attended and presented the Mau with a flag." Embarrassed by the situation in Western Samoa was Britain's Labor Government last week. Three courses seemed open for the solution of this latest Empire problem: 1) Western...
Independence: State or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others-Webster...