Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began by buying a few politicians. His system was a miracle of simplicity. He found a good Klansman who wanted to run for office and paid his campaign expenses always with the understanding that his candidate, when elected and in control of public moneys, should repay him at the rate of three to one, or 300%. If the candidate lost he owed nothing...
...Some measure of control over the policies of a college should be external," declared Professor Gilbert Murray last night. The visiting classicist, from Oxford, who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at the University and who will give his second lecture of the year at 8 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theatre on "The Molpe," made this reply when asked by a CRIMSON reporter for his opinion as to whether a college should be entirely self-governing...
...greatest problems of the Square was then, as now, the proper control of traffic. However, in 1857, the trouble was due to the herds of cattle that were driven through daily on their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton...
Less scurrilous was the examination of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan. With murderous sarcasm Dr. Little was found competent in respect to his athletic, religious and social qualities, but wanting in that he is a biologist, a "loud" approver of birth control and one who had "publicly declared that compared to Oxford, Harvard wasn't so much. . . ." Besides, if Dr. Little was the chosen one, why had Dr. Lowell not yet resigned...
...hospitals who answered the questionnaire on the topic sent out by Margaret Rogers, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., agreed to adopt standards. Dr. W. P. Morrill, Columbia Hospital, Washington, complained of the increasing price of catgut (for operations), due, he said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals...