Word: controls
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Shushing irate young Congressman Voorhis, Acting Chairman Joe Starnes tried to pin the witness down. Said he: "You spoke approvingly of Hitler and his manner of control in Germany. Does your organization foster a program similar to that followed in Germany...
...communal autocracy is his Miami Beach. Shy, able, $10,000-a-year City Manager Clyde Renshaw tends to the mechanics of city government. John Levi and a close little sodality of realty operators, builders, bankers, other local businessmen tend to politics. They comprise, employ, or otherwise control most-of the voting population (4,043 in 1932; 8,552 in 1939). And they perforce are tolerant realists, balancing and catering to the wants of the 200,000 winterbirds who flit in and away, the small but growing number who choose to dwell in Miami Beach...
After World War I Britain's railways presented their Government with a whopping $300,000,000 bill for rent and dam ages, which the Government paid under protest. This time the Government wanted nothing like that, and on Sept. 1 it simply took control of all railway transportation in the British Isles. Since then stockholders have waited anxiously to find out how much profit the Government would allow them...
Aware of his interest in liquor control, some of the group wrote to John D. Rockefeller two years ago-asking not for money but for advice. Mr. Rockefeller asked a representative to look into their doings, grew so interested that he helped to publish a book, Alcoholics Anonymous (Works Publishing Co.; $3.50), in which some members described their battles with the demon and how they...
...survey compiled for The Nation by Elmo Roper, over 63% of its readers are well-to-do, less than 37% belong to the underprivileged classes for whose sake it is edited. The average Nation reader is Jewish (46%) or Protestant (43½%), lives in the industrial East, favors Government control of some or all business, voted for La Follette in 1924, for Roosevelt...