Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in the harbor a few ships got away, many others remained strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...Rhode Island, Democrats two years ago won control of the State Senate for the first time since the Civil War. Last week Democrats finally made a clean sweep by electing not only State officers, but a completely Democratic delegation to Congress. At the same time, Republicans regained control of the State Senate...
...Pennsylvania, Democrats won control of both houses of the State Legislature for the first time since the Civil...
...outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...Negroes (all males). Thus the white majority in any election is safe, but the basis on which this is accomplished may not last forever. The House of Assembly of Bermuda last week put through a budget providing ample funds for the Government to propagandize Bermuda in favor of birth control, supply the necessary apparatus cheap to poor Negroes; further, to launch a determined fight on venereal disease by setting up free clinics. Only 20 of the 360 Bermuda Islands are inhabited. On a total area of 12,360 acres of which only 1,400 are under cultivation, live whites...