Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...House was already well ahead of schedule. Last week it passed an extension of rent control, quickly ironed out minor differences with the Senate's bill. Democrats on its Ways & Means Committee, who have been tinkering despondently with the bill cutting excise taxes $1,100,000,000, produced a new proposal to meet Harry Truman's warning that he would veto any bill which did not make up the revenue elsewhere. It would increase taxes on large corporation profits from the present 38% to 41% to bring in $433,000,000. With the prospect of another $500 million...
Nineteen years later the General Court charged that Harvard was "failing to answer the just expectations of the people of the state" and proceeded to design legislation which would put the college more closely under state control. This move caused enough consternation in Cambridge to induce the President and Fellows to send the legislature a lengthy "Memorial concerning the recent history and the Constitutional Rights and Privileges of Harvard College" in which they claimed "bestowing property . . . is to make and keep it private property." In 1865, ex-officio members of the Board of Overseers from the state government were abolished...
Since not one questionnaire return recommended a general tightening of state control over the University it seems safe to predict that barring an enormous increase of the already unpleasant political tensions, the Harvard-State House relationship will remain the one tradition since 1865 of the successful and clever off-spring every so often called before the family council...
Strengthened State Control...
Succeeding legislative proposals with which University officials became concerned include: the Barnes Bill, the Fair Education Practices Bill (the University opposed it because of the strain it might put on its office force), the Sullivan Bill, and several measures filed this year which deal with control of communist infiltration in teaching