Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separation of the two organizations with different men at the helm of each, in January, 1924, was widely hailed as conducive to increased efficiency because of the detailed functions assigned to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. As a matter of fact, the Shipping Board retains absolute control by the simple, yet efficacious, method of demanding a blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although...
...spurting into the compartment from the battery room duct. I jumped out of the bunk and ran to the door and tried to shut it, but couldn't on account of the pressure of the water rushing in. The water swept me back through the compartment to the control room. I tried to close the doors of the control room, but the pressure of the water was once more too great...
...fully into its own with many courses in the regular curriculum, and a Euthenics laboratory. The courses begun last week were under two heads: family relationships, and the family as an economic unit. There were to be lectures by hygienists and sociologists, including Mrs. Margaret Sanger of the Birth Control League, on the psychological and physiological adjustments of husbands and wives, mothers and children, fathers and children. Economists were to elucidate family production, consumption, and community life...
...Sweringens' previous tactics had been to gain control of the directorate of the constituent lines and to force approval of the mergers. The minority stockholders, especially of the Chesapeake & Ohio, did not like that. Neither did the Interstate Commerce Commission, which forbade the merger last spring (TiME, March...
...Farm relief legislation is dead. So are chances for Republican control of the next Congress," said Democratic Publicity Director G. Hunter Osborne. The first is true enough, and as for the second...