Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Many an aspect of life has kept Jimmy's mind humming: the 2,400-acre Duke estate in New Jersey, a million-dollar cottage in Hawaii, his Synchronization Theory, birth control, sterilization of defectives, libel laws, publicity and, most recently, politics. Four years ago, shy, handsome Doris Duke Cromwell, who up to then had taken no part in the political conversation, gave the Democrats $50,000. By happy coincidence, or perhaps synchronization, last January Jimmy was appointed U. S. Minister to Canada...
...moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...
...passed westbound migrants drawn by the same story about the West. Employment service catalogued the labor needs of every farm in every county (spanning a distance as great as that from Detroit to New York), planted supervisors at crossroads to trace the ebb & flow of men, set up 106 control stations, now delivers as many seasonal workers as a farmer needs (and no more) on the day he calls for them...
...present time the question of control and coordination of governmental agencies remains confused, and the Logan Bill, according to Dean Landis, only makes the issues more involved. This legislation, which is backed by the American Bar Association, would standardize the procedure in appeals from administrative decrees, and extend judicial review to questions of fact...
...separate underwriters and traders from investment trust control, a majority of each directorate must be independent of brokers, of managers for trusts, of distributors of investment trust securities...