Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Congress, as everyone knows, is government by committee. By controlling the political composition of these off-stage organizations, the party in power controls the character of legislation they frame for enactment. Most potent of Senate committees is the Committee on Finance, dealing with taxation. To maintain control over it is a practical necessity for any Senate majority. Last week the rising tide of Western insurgency reached a high-water mark when the Regular Republicans virtually lost control of the Committee on Finance by the election of Senator Robert Marion La Follette, well-dressed young Wisconsin Insurgent, to that sub-Senate...
...Young's argument concerning threatened British control of world-communication to which Mr. Carlton took most pointed exception. "There is no menace," said he. "It [the menace] is one of the most fantastic bogies dressed up in my experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a "creaking, awkward, ponderous set-up." He said he could wish a business competitor no worse luck, than to be hooked up in such a system, maintained that his com pany and Radio Corp. "hold the British merger in the hollow of their hand...
...said he, "has the genius of Owen D. Young found more eloquent expression than in the framing of the terms he wanted us to agree to. The only trouble was, we were awake.' Mr. Young's terms, Mr. Carlton complained, would have put Radio Corp. "virtually in control of Western Union...
...served as a director of several corporations among which are the Universal Paper Bag Company, the Union Mills Paper Company, the Trenton. Banking Company, and was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies. He is a trustee of Rutgers University and the Trenton Free Public Library. In 1924 he became Attorney General for the State of New Jersey and still acts in that capacity...
...fats with sugars, albumins with sugars. The fats and albumins in all types uf tuberculosis are very much alike. But the sugars differ greatly. Hence the sugars are suspected of bearing a close relation to the disease and it is the sugars which tuberculesis researchers are trying to control. Hope lies in using light or some other catalyst to swing the chemical combinations of the sugars with fats and sugars with albumins away from those forms which seem to stimulate the growth of tubercles.-William Charles White, U. S. Public Health Service...