Word: controllable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control over Foreign Policy, Senator Pittman even went beyond the Constitution. For, under the Constitution the President cannot be ordered by Congress to proclaim a state of war. Constitutionalists held that this provision of the bill would subordinate the White House to Congress...
...Yale-in-China campus has so far escaped bombs and fires.) But Changsha would serve as a stepping stone to China's southwesternmost provinces, which are the last open doors to the Western World. If and when the Japanese control those provinces, they will have practically all there...
...consolidated enough gains to put his heavy artillery in range of the main West-wall defenses in at least two spots of his own choosing: the Blies Valley (Zweibrücken) and the Lauter Valley sector. He claimed to have surrounded 60 German villages. He had Saarbrikken under control (it was too heavily mined to take frontally), had covered with his artillery most of the coal mines and heavy industries in the Saar Valley (immensely important to the German economy and not offset by Silesia), putting them out of operation. He threatened paralysis of the Saar basin with his drive...
...days earlier London's press campaign against Perth Control (TIME, Sept. 25) had come to a climax when the Evening Standard printed an editorial in which it accused the Ministry of harboring political jobholders without news experience. Said the Standard: "It is staffed to capacity three or four times over, but stuffed with incapacity. We are not fighting the big Hitler on the Rhine only to set up little Hitlers here...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...