Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senator Smoot called "men of education and broad information, with a knowledge of the world," but whose "knowledge of the world," according to Senator Cutting, "is how to get from the Bowery to the Hudson River piers and open trunks and leave them in confusion." 2) No censorship, leaving control of obscene books entirely to the States. 3) Censorship by the U. S. courts, as a body of intelligence and literary discrimination above that of Customs agents...
...Senate Bill is a feeble victory for Republican Old Guardsmen who for weeks lost control of their favorite legislation to a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans. Last month, due to logrolling, trades and secret bargaining between local interests, the coalition disintegrated, the Old Guard regained control, rewrote rates...
Correspondents of long experience cabled that never before had they seen the present Supreme Pontiff show such intense emotion, or such iron self-control, as during the service. He appeared without many of the customary trappings of the Papacy, wore neither the triple tiara, nor the dazzling white Pontifical garb, but instead a simple cape and stole of scarlet...
...minutes less than the Bremen's best time, thereby setting a world record of 4 days, 17 hr., 6 min. from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Meantime her owners announced that they were in the process of entering into a 50-year "commercial alliance" with the Hamburg-American line. Control of each company will remain with its present officers. The tonnages "allied" are so great that they will operate side by side as the third largest mercantile unit in the world, the second being P. & O., and 'the first Royal Mail, both British...
...first successful "free-type" chute, to be worn on the back and opened by the wearer as he falls clear of his machine. It was followed by the seat-type, now in general use, first tested by Leslie Irvin, who jumped merely to prove that man does not lose control of his faculties in falling unhindered through space...