Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have learned our history lesson from two world wars in less than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned that if the free nations do not stand together, they will fall one by one . . . We and the free nations of Europe are determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular...
...newsmen "The Merry Mortician," had been getting support for a "compromise," which was not a compromise at all but a hard peace imposed by the victors. He had rounded up 18 Southerners, 22 Republicans and twelve "non-confederate" Democrats, mostly from the border states. Thus reinforced, with full control of the Senate, Wherry went on the floor, whooped through his "compromise" resolution to end the filibuster by a 6340-23 vote...
Southerners and Republicans also trampled on Mr. Truman's rent law. He wanted rent controls (due to expire March 31) extended two years. His House leaders were lucky to get a bill which limited control to 15 months. The measure gave state, county and city lawmakers the right to end controls altogether in their areas. The Senate Banking Committee went on from there. The Senate bill would permit an automatic 10% hike in rents within the next year and guarantee landlords a "fair return on values...
Mullins, in the past, has gone on record in defense of the press' coverage as free from outside control...
...letter to the Student Council last April, Dean Bender said, "The question of control will ordinarily be impossible to decide conclusively in the case of publications connected with fascist or communist movements whose code of morality is well known. So the Committee did not attempt to investigate the control of the New Student." We believe this shows that the politics of the New Student entered into the Committee's approach to the question of recognition...