Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When the last land dissolves upon the horizon, the sea assumes its elemental, immutable aspect. Ships seen upon it then most truly represent man's control over inanimate nature" if not over himself. President Hoover, 36 miles at sea off the Virginia Capes last week, had a chance to ponder such verities. Over the horizon from the north, looming bullet-grey in the brightening morning, moved four-fifths of the nation's fighting seapower. As an engineer Mr. Hoover had to admire. As a President with instincts toward creative civilization, who had just engaged to limit such power...
...Works. Friction arose quickly between Commissioners Emmons and Gillespie. Mr. Emmons now charges that during a business trip he took shortly after his installation, the Mayor permitted the opening of long-closed big gambling dens. He also now charges that he was forced to surrender to the Mayor the control and reorganization of the vice squad...
...credited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The institute, which has had great presidents, has, in choosing a new president, Compton, asked the retiring president, Stratton, to become chairman of the executive committee and of the corporation. This chairmanship has its analogy in a method of the control of banks and other great corporations. The division of duties and of rights between these two offices has not yet been made; but all interested in college administration will follow with high anticipation this new method for adding efficiency and giving richer personal inspiration to great academic and constructive leadership...
...political, not economic. Tariff and customs cooperation is placed in a secondary position to political unity. The replies from the Powers which have been asked for July will largely determine its career. Germany holds the deciding cards, Should Germany effectively cooperate with France, Europe would come under Franco-German control, London would see its century-old balance of power slip through its fingers, and Mussolini could cry vainly for fanfares and sword-play. If Germany refuses to see this organization within the League, the main object of the Union would be lost...
...editors of the Harvard Lampoon have issued a Tercentenary number which is an example of the danger of permitting adolescent minds to have control of ink and a printing press...