Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...accompli, and not all the courts in the Commonwealth can drive him from his sanctuary in the Faculty Club. But his arrival means more for the University than victory over a loud-mouthed Boston politician. It means that academic freedom is still the guiding principle of the men who control Harvard...
Finally it suggested that the United States arrange with Great Britain to share or assume control of the Singapore naval base and other British bases in the East so that the Japanese conquest of the East Indies from distant bases would be a practical impossibility...
...With Europe, the Near East and Africa under control, the Axis would have the economic resources necessary to fight any kind of war, including a trade war with the U. S. That the U. S. was not left out of the Rome discussions was made plain by the Italian press which chorused a warning to leave the Eastern Hemisphere alone...
...sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
Then up rose Herbert Hoover, ex-President of the U. S., and proceeded to plunge the gathering again into gloom. Mr. Hoover undertook to picture the post-war world to come. He predicted that dictators would control 60% of the world's people and 40% of its trade, warned that if the U. S. entered the war it, too, would become a dictatorship. He bade the U. S. prepare to do business with the dictators. Said he: "The idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live...