Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College. He began his career at Scott Paper Co., became a supersalesman and finally president. He has held various Washington jobs, including that of deputy lend-lease administrator. McCabe, like Eccles, is concerned about ways & means to curtail credit. He also believes that great efforts should be made to control inflation. The difference between the two may be largely one of method. Amiable, smiling Tom McCabe gets along with people...
...unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...
...great Eastern European federation might be able to protect its bosses from the Kremlin's reach. Therefore Moscow wanted to coordinate the policies of Eastern European countries through Communist Party machinery, which it can control, rather than through Eastern European governments. As Pravda explained: "What [these states] do need is consolidation and protection of their independence and sovereignty through mobilization and organization of their domestic democratic forces, as has been correctly stated in the known declaration of the nine Communist Parties...
...failed to agree on Barnes' major premise that the bill is not a "thought control" measure and split thereafter on each issue as it arose-from the relative danger of teaching Communistic doctrines to their differing historical analogies...