Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (Congregationalist) said the U.S. should not "set policy for other nations and people." U.S. foreign aid, said Candidate Humphrey, "should not be denied on the basis of any country's policy relating to birth control...
...citizen, and hence not subject to ecclesiastical force, can disavow the policy which the hierarchy of his church has proclaimed." At week's end, a spokesman for the aid-dispensing International Cooperation Administration said that not a penny of U.S. foreign aid had been spent to spread birth control information overseas, added that "no such action was contemplated." Hence, said he, the controversy was actually "very academic...
...nobody was listening. The birth control issue was joined, and Jack Kennedy knew that the deep-rooted religious challenge to his presidential ambitions, newly burst into the open, could be hazardous indeed...
...union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed to the original aims for which Keir Hardie and his cloth-capped trade-union radicals-none...
Through his first frenzied months in office, Iraq's lean and ascetic Premier Karim Kassem snatched a few hours sleep nightly on a couch near his office desk. Visitors to his Baghdad Defense Ministry headquarters were impressed by his tightly reined self-control and the masklike grin he wore. But the assassin's bullets that crumpled his left shoulder last October seem to have shattered the mask, and perhaps shattered Kassem's tight self-control as well...