Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Glass declared that it "has gone far afield from its original functions and has constituted itself a court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception of the evils of judicial usurpation...
When the War began she came to the U. S. to be Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's suffraget aid. While doing that she learned of Margaret Sanger's trouble with the police over birth control advocacy. Kitty Marion offered to busk the promising but innocuous Birth Control Review at Manhattan's busiest corners. She has been doing that for the past 13 years...
Last week she ceased her street hawking, because the magazine thereafter was to be sold solely by subscription, and because she had become rheumatic and weary. The American Birth Control League gave her a "gratitude" luncheon, a large bouquet and $500. She wept, a weather-beaten, greying woman of 58, and cried: "Thank goodness, I'll have no more fights with the police...
...this week, at Los Angeles, the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control will conduct a Western States Conference on Birth Control & Population Problems, to whip up interest in the national campaign among people in Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico...
...Group drill, like team athletics, teaches self control or command over oneself while a member of the group When acting as a leader one develops in addition self confidence, initiative, and a sense of responsibility. Moreover such drill improves posture, teaches alertness, and inoculates respect for authority...