Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Student Union will hold its first membership meeting of the year at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell House Common Room, where the two rival factions, split on foreign policy, will battle for control of the organization...
...that has become a part of the national life in our land has taken on an added significance because of certain events in certain other lands. For a very large portion of the world that right no longer exists. Almost the first freedom to be destroyed, as dictators take control, is the freedom of learning. Tyranny hates and fears no thing more than the free exchange of ideas, the free play of the mind that comes from education." Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, at Hyde Park on Saturday...
...word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers. Melodious and wonderful was ASCAP's assault. At the San Francisco Fair, in its closing week, ASCAP gave two free concerts, the like of which the West Coast had never heard...
Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...
Faced with knottier problems in war-torn 1940, Pinedo last month announced that his exchange control had temporarily suspended all applications for outgoing U. S. dollar-exchange permits-in effect a blockade of all U. S. products coming into Argentina. Later it was blandly announced that this was not a blockade, but a sort of bookkeeper's holiday to allow experts to study "the dollar situation." For Argentina, the dollar situation was serious. Her exports to Belgium, The Netherlands and France have stopped, and her sales to Great Britain no longer produce any foreign exchange, because sterling exports...