Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heretofore a resolution for an investigation has been referred to the Committee on Audit & Control of Contingent Expenses, the chief function of which has been to estimate the probable cost of the investigation (cost of clerks, stenographers, transportation cost for witnesses, etc.). Then the resolution for an investigation has been voted on by the Senate. Generally it has been passed because Senators do not care to lay themselves open to the charge of having helped the Administration cover up its defects...
There came to Manhattan a special delegation from Kansas City, a delegation that included Mayor Beach and many substantial citizens. There were taxi-loads of flowers. There were 10,000 people beside themselves to get into the Metropolitan Opera House, and arrogant mounted police out to control them. There were more than 5,000 people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly. There were those who offered $100, $150 for a seat, one man who paid $25 for admission to stand. And through it all, a person...
...population shifts westward, the state university will become an increasingly important medium of instruction. In order to progress toward the educational ideal, outside pressure must not be a factor in faculty policy. Only if it is itself free from control can a university foster that essential of education, intellectual independence...
...soon deliberately took another lover, the grossest, most insulting she could find, to torture Christopher. The selection of this man seemed to her a positive inspiration. Christopher's emotional control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could...
...Pearl goes on to produce evidence of different kinds on the factors which control population, showing: 1) that for some unknown reason, perhaps psychological, fertility decreases as the size of a group increases (for example a group of 50 hens in a pen will lay more eggs per hen than a group of 100 hens) ; 2) that, as if well known, wealth reduces the birth rate; 3) that poverty and hard conditions of life tend to increase reproductive activity. In this connection he produces statistics of the sex activity of some 250 married men at various ages. At all periods...