Word: controlled
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Other legislation which the President had asked for in July and which presumably he would ask for again: extension of rent control (due to expire March 31) and a housing bill-if not the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for building 500,000 housing units for low-income families, then something very much like...
Williams, an ex-Princeton oarsman (class of '33), whose intimates call him "Soapy," had entered the gubernatorial race almost without assets-political or financial. He had served in appointive political jobs-lately as a state liquor-control commissioner-but had never run for elective office. Though he is an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune, he will not get his share until he is 40. His Republican family refused to back his campaign...
Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...
...General Assembly decided, 40 to 6, that the U.S. atomic control plan (Baruch plan) was the one the world needed. It officially hoped (also 40 to 6) that the Big Five and Canada would find in it a basis for agreement. Said Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "We can immediately give a reply-there is no such basis...
...democracy was not aimed at its defects, but at its inadequacy, its incompleteness. Democracy without Christianity was not so much the opposite of the police state as it was its forerunner. "Liberalism can .prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutal control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos...