Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...
...would give facilities, they would find cures for disease. Rich men have given great sums for the furtherance of medical knowledge. Some have given with the impersonal benevolence of the Rockefellers (Rockefeller Foundation) and of those contributors to the $1,000,000 endowment of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia; he gave $5,000 for pneumonia research (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Professor Stephen Leacock's wife died...
...cancer research, at least, there will be no dearth of facilities and money this year. The American Society for the Control of Cancer practically has its million dollars to spend on public education to prevent cancer. Various other societies haVe their funds. Hospitals have their clinics, supported usually by special endowments. In Manhattan the New York Cancer Institute, financed by the city, cares for impoverished cancer patients and studies the infinite variety of the disease. Last week the New York Cancer Association, headed by Sanders A. Wertheim, occasionally flamboyant coal dealer, announced that, to cooperate still further with the city...
...lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology is a young science, which has only begun its cultural value...