Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
Oldtime National Guard officers would have none of such heresy. State control of the guard, cried the National Guard Association's 60-year-old Major General Ellard A. Walsh, "is practically the last bastion in the fortress of states' rights." He warned that the politically powerful association would carry the fight to Congress...
...Kremlin, rejecting this offer, made counterproposals: I) recognition of Soviet "paramount interest" in the administration of Berlin; 2) suspension of the provisional government set up by the Western Allies for Western Germany; 3) a Soviet voice in control of the Ruhr and withdrawal of all occupation forces as first steps toward a German treaty...
...ordered railway employees to stand by for reopening of the line from Helmstedt to Berlin. The German supervisor of the line denied it. Another rumor had it that the Russians were beefing up their defenses in front of Germany's western zones. All semblance of four-power control of Berlin had ended on July i; the Russians finished the obsequies last week by hauling down their flag from the Kommandatura building, removing Uncle Joe Stalin's picture and withdrawing their sentry...
...express a desire to be informed of other facts which create dissatisfaction in the U.S.S.R . . . Leading comrades in Yugoslavia are saying things like "The [Soviet] All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) is degenerate," and "the Cominform is a means of controlling other parties by the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)." These anti-Soviet phrases are usually covered up by leftist phrases such as "Socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary" . . . It would be pertinent to mention that Trotsky . . . also started accusing the [Soviet] Communist Party of being degenerate . .. behind the leftist phrase of world revolution. However...