Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fackenthal reply was issued after a group of prominent citizens, headed by Albert Einstein, had denounced the bill as one more step toward military control of American civil life. The group claimed that such domination had already progressed to the point where it "jeopardized our planning for peace." The Einstein report was issued by the National Council Against Conscription...
...Peace Front will not be confined to workers. "Homestead Committees" and a "Constituent Assembly of the Land" will try to organize farmers and small landowners. Army, police, magistrates, intellectuals must not be left out. Mauro Scoccimarro, ex-Finance Minister, summed up: "Mere control of ordinary state machinery and bourgeois parliamentary institutions is not enough. There must be something outside Parliament and outside the government capable of controlling and directing both...
...million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
...percent of the President's budget is allocated to national defense, the Marshall plan, veterans' benefits, tax refunds, and interest on the national debt. Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic energy, flood control, reclamation, and the operation of Congress and the Courts, constitute another 16.1 percent. Cuts can be made here but only by sacrificing the long-run interest of the nation to the desire of the majority of Congress to carry a "good record" into the November elections. The remaining 2.7 percent...
...believe that this attempt to make ideas alone the subject of criminal prosecution is the boldest attempt at thought-control ever proposed in this state. It is a clear denial of our constitutional rights...