Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
...large areas of China the government still held control. Sometimes the Reds caught a lesson, as did raiding General Ting Hsi-shan. When he raided Tsingpu, near Shanghai, he ran into an ambush. His head was pinned to the Tsingpu city wall...
...TIME will at least make an attempt to follow them. . . . But TIME'S religious page has [another] . . . fundamental function -to follow religious thought. Just as political philosophy does, in the end, control politics, so religious thought determines the course of churches...
...stockholders felt the same way. Moreover, they wanted to know why OAP had not yet kept its word to sell its share of the company and return control to private hands. This week Dave Bazelon got ready for a stockholders' suit challenging his authority to run the companies...