Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hooper termed Herter's voting record on such issues as housing and rent control "conservative." We believe, on the contrary, that a vote for all amendments to weaken OPA, to lift price ceilings on existing homes for sale, against Government subsidy of low cost housing, and for the Walcott "kill rent control" bill is reaction, pure and simple...
...nine referenda facing Massachusetts voters today, only four--Questions 5, 6, and 7, the "labor referenda," and Question 4, the birth control measure--have provoked angry debate. Two other measures have also stirred up some controversy, but it is doubtful whether much of the citizenry even knows they are on the ballot...
...labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because of its past ill-treatment of Mexican workers...
...able and aggressive labor leader, Cipriano Reyes was a circus tight-rope walker, packinghouse worker and longshoreman. An early Peronista, he helped the president to power, later he broke with Perón. Through his leadership of the small but active Laborista party he turned to fighting Peronista control of labor. From Buenos Aires last week leaked an account of how a man with such savvy and background could be sucked into a futile conspiracy: Perón's police had mousetrapped...
...pyramiding depression" (a depression that grows steadily worse). The shotgun blast had, in effect, performed in seconds a brain operation that ordinarily takes hours. It was "practically the same," said Dr. Holmes, as an anterior lobectomy-i.e., part of the frontal areas of the brain, which control emotions, had been cut through. At the hospital the patient was "perfectly oriented and cooperative"; she is now working in a hotel and living normally with a daughter...