Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real fight remained and would continue to be waged right up to Election Day-the fight for control of the Senate (TIME, Oct. 11). It was still such a dingdong race in twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much...
This was a predicament, all right, although Dewey's course was not necessarily cynical or even illogical. In order to pursue a program, he had to exercise political control over the committees and the men who ran them. A Democratic-controlled Senate could pretty well sabotage a legislative program. A Republican Senate would make things much clearer. Dewey would then not have an alibi for failures, as Harry Truman had had with a Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
...Dominions" (and the mother country) had rejected a proposal binding them to concerted action in defense and foreign relations. Their union rested on like-mindedness, on "kingship and kinship," on a common heritage and a common way of doing things. It rested also-very heavily-on British control of the seas and London's central position in world commerce-of which Lloyd's was a symbol. These had been the central political and economic facts of the preceding century...
...girls fail to go to college for economic reasons [alone] as the number who now enter ..." To provide genuine equality of opportunity, Conant favors: 1) federal aid to "shockingly inadequate" state school systems; 2) federal scholarships to the gifted but poor. And he disagrees with "defeatists" who fear federal control...
Definition. In Rochester, England, the city food-control committee decided not to prosecute a food vendor when it learned from the Ministry of Food that "meat pies aren't required to contain any meat...