Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Meantime the amendment had become a campaign issue. In Rushville, Wendell Willkie said it gave the President "absolute and arbitrary control of virtually the entire economic system of the United States. . . ." All business and perhaps all agriculture, said he, could conceivably be included; discretion as to when there was a disagreement was left to the President. If passed, the amendment "will further impede and disorganize the defense program," will also stop normal industrial expansion. It was a threat to labor, since labor cannot strike against the Government and business so acquired would be Government-operated...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $200,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and its giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Blooinfontein, South Africa, lies in the hands of seven...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various departments of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...
...studios, donated by the University, occupy a suite of rooms Shepherd Hall. Besides a transmitter in the basement and a completely equipped control room, the Network boasts a sound-proofed (or almost) studio with standing and table mikes, signal window to the control room, and a fine pair of turntables...
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because in trying to do so, "It would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...