Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...under martial law to prevent a match or spark being struck there. The schools closed. Cause of all this was an oil well just beyond the southeastern city boundary, known as the C. E. Stout No. i. It blew in last week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves, demolished the surmounting derrick. The well turned into the "wildest ever seen," much more powerful and dangerous than the nearby Mary Sudik, which last spring kept Oklahoma citizens alarmed for ten days (TIME, April...
...landslide. There had been bound to be some reaction from the Hoover landslide of 1928. Every one had expected the Senate to have six or eight more Democrats in it, narrowing the already narrow Administration margin there and redoubling the Insurgents' balance-of-power. But that the Administration's control of the House should be seriously threatened was unforeseen, unnerving...
...control of the 72nd Congress continued to seesaw, Democrats, led by Chairman Jouett Shouse, continued to claim a full House majority of their own without insurgent Republican aid. They placed a heavy stake on Kentucky where a new law delayed the count which they hoped would put their party across and elevate Representative John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speakership...
Cornell University comes here on December 2. to debate with Harvard on a subject as yet unannounced. The University squad has arranged a debate on the relative merits of public and private control of electric power with St. John's College. to be held in Annapolis. Maryland...
...feature of the House Plan, they must be released entirely from the tentacles of Widener: they must be free to develop, without interference, into individual units. Under any other plan, they will become mere book rooms under the supervision of an institution which already directs more than it can control efficiently...