Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans were already...
...berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value...
Wheat. The Canadian Wheat Pool was a full-fledged organization in 1924. It attempted to control world prices, failed. The Federal Farm Board, set up last year, has pegged the price of wheat in the U. S. but found no way of disposing of its surplus. The result may be transferring the loss from the farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat...
From the transaction, Publisher Quigley emerges as the only man solely to control the entire national trade press of a first-magnitude U. S. industry...