Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idle Whiskey. He became Democratic leader by wresting control of the assembly district from one James A. McQuade, member of a family known as the "thirtyfour starving McQuades." He ran for office (alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might...
...issue which powered the Soviet propaganda drive was the London agreement to establish a Western German government and international control of the Ruhr (TIME, June 14). Its purpose had been to revive Western Germany's great industrial power for the benefit of all of Europe...
...agreement produced a political and spiritual crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). German antiCommunists, the very people the move was designed to help, regarded it as an insult and an injury. German leaders meeting in Düsseldorf to discuss an increase in Ruhr coal production proclaimed self-righteously: "International control of the Ruhr is not justified, because the German authorities are themselves unanimously determined never to allow the Ruhr to become a threat to peace . . ." Cried a cocky German labor leader: "Do you really believe the miners are going to work harder when they know that other countries will take...
...paid by each country had been fixed at $300,000,000. In goods, services and occupation costs, the Soviet Union had already taken over three times that amount from Rumania. In Hungary, through seizure of so-called German assets and a system of joint Hungarian-Soviet companies, the Soviet control of Hungary"? economy had become so complete that further reparations payments would, in effect, mean that the Soviet Union was exacting war damages from itself...
...thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to & from the frontal lobe. When these nerve pathways get out of whack, the doctors reasoned, emotional control becomes disturbed and insanity results. Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain...