Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most constructive legislation that bears his name is the Air Commerce Act of 1926 which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate...
...nomination. Wrote he: "No Justice of the Supreme Court should capitalize into wealth the prestige and influence acquired. ... He should neither expect nor receive appointment to the position of Chief Justice. . . . There are rumors afloat that a huge and uncontrollable political machine has been built up whereby governmental control will be lodged in the hands of a few men and, with the confirmation of Judge Hughes, the control will embrace each of three coordinate branches of the Federal Government. . . . We'll be fortunate if we don't wake up to find the Supreme Court has handed down opinions which will...
...other was Clarence Cook Little, the university's president, whose administration policies the Board of Regents politically dislike. Dr. Little (a doctor of science, not of medicine) has returned to the genetics study of his youth. Also he is now director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...Manhattan. Showmen, long impotent in creating new superlatives, can murmur nothing except "titanic" when they think of the $10,000,000 that went into its erection. But few stockholders in Roxy Theatres Corp. are proud of their palatially gaudy enterprise. For, despite the fact that Fox soon bought control, Roxy A stock has declined from its offering price of $40 in 1925 to $22, has never been listed on any exchange. And Roxy performances, while resplendent with tinseled stage-shows, redundant with the harmony of a vast 80-piece orchestra, nevertheless seldom seem to include good pictures...
...addition to his charge that the company is a German menace, Mr. Garvan based his fraud accusations on the following ideas: 1) the debentures are convertible into common stock which the company can redeem, thereby assuring German control; 2) Paul Warburg received an honorary Ph. D. from Heidelberg in 1927, W. E. Weiss a similar degree from Cologne in 1928, were thereby influenced to lend their names to the company, while others received "considerations having nothing to do with the interests of the company...