Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most serious situation as far as the United States is concerned is control of the Dutch colonies in the East and the West Indies, in Professor Langer's opinion...
Generation ago, physicians spent most of their time rushing around to sick babies. Today, with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles under control, most of their patients are oldsters. Although more than 30,000,000 persons in the U. S. are over 45, few doctors really know how the process of aging changes the human body. Last week in the New York Academy of Medicine, Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, Neurologist Foster Kennedy of Cornell sounded off at a symposium on old hearts, old brains...
...Kennedy, is forgetful because his memory tract, the corpus callosum (a belt of fibres connecting the two brain hemispheres), shrinks to one-third its size. And he loses interest in his environment because he is plagued by "sensations from his gut," which his brain is not strong enough to control...
...Gates ("Charlie") Dawes, first director of the Budget. He declared his belief that the public debt soars because Government departments are putting one over on Franklin Roosevelt; that if the next President would make his department heads swear fealty to the idea of budget balancing, and if a "coordinating control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women that boards were no way to balance a budget, made his oft-repeated...
...thoroughly kicked before the United States Chamber of Commerce (see col. 1). The kicker: John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., No. 1 U. S. bituminous producer. His summary: "This act is one of the greatest monstrosities that ever adorned the statute books. . . ." His remedy: voluntary control of prices and competition by the industry under Federal supervision...