Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis is ready to join the hunt: "Anxious for more and immediate gains for labor, he would like to see a President elected by a partnership of labor, the middle class, liberals and the farmers. He is thus interested in the possible formation of a bloc which can control the Democratic party; or failing that, a new liberal or progressive party rather than a labor party. His own candidacy for the Presidency, if it comes about in 1940, would be with Lewis a second choice. He would rather back a progressive on whom labor can count, than take the field...
...been the key man of the regime, National Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, the builder of the People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
...ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared- elephantastically in a howdah-for the first time in any circus, out-ballyhooed John & Henry Ringling North who, after payment of $823,000, last winter brought back into the Ringling family control of the circus it lost to creditors six years...
...major asset a "control ball" Curtiss stopped the Middles 7-4 on the spring trip and hurled well in relief on Johnny Mahoney in the B. U. game on Wednesday. With Ingalls on the bench with injuries, Curtiss is the number one Crimson pitcher and should come through ahead of Pennsylvania's Lefty Ruszuak...
...paid their dues, Joseph Stefani last night urged the A. F. of L. waitresses to pay up as soon as possible. Half the waitresses, he declared, were in arrears. "Inside" union officials argued, however, that even if all the A. F. of L. waitresses paid up, Stefani would only control 30 percent of all the waitresses and cooks...