Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala, talked to Somoza about the story and the Dictator said: "Wasn't that something! I never "thought lightning would strike a little tree, but it did. Of course, it wasn't all true, but I don't mind that. Shows people I don't control TIME...
Macoy asked "Tacho" Somoza, who does control Nicaragua, just what part of the story wasn't true. "Oh, that stuff about me getting some money to pay somebody. That all came from the opposition, but I don't mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
...shellacking-a defeat made the more humiliating because it was administered by his old enemy, New Orleans' aggressive young mayor, deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison. Already holding more power than any other U.S. governor, Earl had asked the voters to approve 41 constitutional amendments which would have vastly extended his control over state spending. One amendment would have given him domination of the port of New Orleans through control of the Dock Board which supervises the port's increasing commerce. Another would have made Louisiana State University a mere political subdivision of the governor's office...
...Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor emeritus of sociology at New York University and a proponent of birth control, declared that "for the next few decades," a stationary world population "would do more for the cause of lasting peace than any other specific measure." Added Dr. Fairchild: "War cannot be counted on to keep population within bounds...
...almost as flexible as cellophane, changing its shape appreciably (in millionths of an inch) with each new position as the telescope swings with the stars. In cells on the under side of the mirror (see cut) are 36 complicated mechanisms, each with 1,100 parts, designed to control this out-of-focus warping by varying pressure...