Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...should arrange with Great Britain to share or assume control of the Singapore Naval Base and other British bases in the East, so far as this is practicable from the point of view of sound strategy...
Jack Dempsey: "As for Joe Louis [who came out for Willkie]. ... He should remember he was a poor man himself. He used to pick cotton." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "I do not choose to enter the Cabinet." Chicago's Mayor Kelly: "We have no voice or control over the ballots as they are marked by the voters." Van Wyck Brooks: "Although I am a Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh...
...normal air, breathing is controlled by the respiratory centre in the medulla, which is part of the brain. But this centre is itself enfeebled by oxygen lack, passes control to secondary centres, the carotid bodies in the neck and the aortic body near the heart. Lack of oxygen stimulates instead of enfeebling these secondary centres, and they send out stronger and stronger impulses to the respiration muscles. If the lungs suddenly get more oxygen, the carotid and aortic bodies rest, turn back control to the centre in the medulla. But that stupefied centre may not be in shape to take...
Government control of radio will be the subject of a free, public lecture tonight by Charles A. Siepmann, University Lecturer and formerly Director of Program Planning for the British Broadcasting Corporation, to be given in Harvard Hall at 8 o'clock...
...Private Enterprise and Government Control; the Role of the FCC" is the stated topic of tonight's lecture, the fifth in a series being given by Stepmann on the general topic "The Challenge and Menace of Radio." Next on the list is "The Psychology of Radio," on November...