Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the indulgent Grau, 100 revolutionary gang murders have passed unpunished since 1944. Prío, who showed his mettle last year by breaking Communist control of Cuban labor, has assured Cubans that he intends to bring in law and administrative order. "The limits of anarchy," he said last week before his inauguration, "have been reached under the present government. I have no intention of beginning mine in the same condition...
Initiation. In Santa Maria, Calif., the rent control office moved to different quarters when the landlord boosted the rent...
...innings at Braves Field, a crowd of 40,135 sat spellbound by the tightest World Series pitchers' duel since Art Nehf beat Sad Sam Jones in 1923. Sain kept feeding the Indians big, jug-handle curves, interspersed with little curves, until they were fit to be tied. His control was uncanny; he allowed four hits and not one walk. Feller, who pitched a two-hitter, gave up three bases on balls, which led to his undoing. He lost a heartbreaker...
...Majority stockholders: Publisher David Tennant Bryan and his family, who also control Richmond's only other paper, the morning Times-Dispatch. Freeman's opposite number on the Times-Dispatch is famed Southern Editor Virginius Dabney...
...spirit of international conferences should be that of a showdown poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that...