Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stockholders were those of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., personified by Walter Sherman Gifford, A. T. & T. president. Mr. Gifford told the Senate Interstate Commerce committee that, while he favored U. S. regulation "in principle," he opposed it in practice because, in his opinion, it would annihilate control of communications by State agencies just as State regulation of railroads has vanished...
...Michigan to establish a Federal Communications Commission. This Commission would regulate valuation, profits and service rates of telephone and telegraph companies. Theoretically such companies are now regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission but that potent agency, already overwhelmed with its railroad work, has never attempted to exercise communications control beyond receiving financial statements and ordering changes in accounting methods...
Montana's Senator Wheeler and others on the committee remarked upon the fact that A. T. & T. opposed Federal regulation yet would not willingly submit itself to the control of State agencies on the claim its interstate business was beyond their jurisdiction...
...thoroughly modernistic creation by Modernist Stuart Davis, and had their photograph taken. It was the biggest event in the campaign to modernize U. S. art since the Armory Show of 1913, in which several of the same artists were represented. Now the modernists were and are in control of the situation. Of the 33 exhibitors at the Grand Central show, 25 have pictures hanging in leading museums. On the first day of the show there were eleven sales...
...long as the Germans control great chemical institutions in which the world of tomorrow is being formed, they can sit back and smile at such things as the London Naval Conference, for if Germany has chemical control of the world . . . she need fear no one. . . . It is because of all this . . . that the American people have a right to know of any such operation as that accomplished here in New York in the financing of a subsidiary of the German chemical cartel...