Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsible for the team physically is the coach. He is also to be held accountable for the mental attitude of his players. They must respect him. When he shows that he is unable to control his team and his team's spirit, he should be removed far more quickly than a coach who, perhaps through lack of material, has been unable to garner a sizeable amount of victories...
...desk in Washington last week Executive Secretary Joseph Green of the State Department's National Munitions Control Board signed a license for the shipment to Germany of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium for Nazi dirigibles (TIME, Jan. 17). For making the first break in the U. S. Government's virtual monopoly of the world supply, the Board forestalled anti-Nazi criticism by explaining: 1) that U. S. stores are adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably...
...Spain were not entirely unprepared. Wiseacres had believed that civil war was inevitable ever since the February elections gave the Rightist parties a popular vote of 4,696,000 to the Leftists' 4,356,000, but, owing to Spain's peculiar electoral system, gave the Leftists control of the Government with 296 seats in Parliament to the Rightists' 177. The Rightists correctly assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain's regular Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation...
Hitler Über Alles. Once more Adolf Hitler, advised by his inscrutable intuition, staked everything on a Nazi throw. The Fuhrer announced not only that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...
...insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads to tighten his hold on the military and cracked down on labor by deciding that "useless" strikes are outlawed and he personally will determine which strikes are "useless...