Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landlords in Tulsa, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City threatened to evict tenants and take more than 100,000 apartments off the market if rent control is extended. In Kansas City, the Rev. R. Lester Mondale indignantly notified a group of rebel property owners gathered in his church's meeting hall that he had increased their rent for the hall from $10 to $100 a meeting...
While Adam was a "brains" player, Henry relies more on skill and natural ability, and for that reason Coach Barnaby thinks he is the most talented of the three. Combining a strong shot with beautiful control and ability to anticipate, Henry plays the kind of sound, rounded squash game that Barnaby calls "absolutely up-to-hoyle...
...Acheson] or any other nominee precisely what policies he will pursue, because he or any other nominee will pursue whatever policies are directed by the President. Only the President himself can answer the question, and the answer may sometimes be quite impromptu and unpredictable. We cannot control foreign policy through our action on this or any other nominee. I want to make that plain. Therefore, it should be made wholly obvious that we do not underwrite the results, in terms of foreign policy, which will flow from our confirmation of this or any other nominee...
...Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came to a bitter end. The British government issued a White Paper which wiped out the Balfour Declaration and foreshadowed possible control of all of Palestine by the Arabs...
...control of the world is changing hands," he claimed, "and the political strategy of the U. S. must be to keep the peace...