Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
...jurisdiction in this country does not extend beyond the confines of the cathedral body, of which he is the head. Outside those limits he speaks and acts only for himself. The Archbishop of Canterbury has neither responsibility for what the dean may say or do nor power to control...
...liberties, the U.S. press? The University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins, himself no silent partner of democracy, thought he knew the answer. As usual, his answer was irritating. He gave it last week in a speech at Rochester, N.Y.: "If you don't want Government control [or] the abuses almost inherent in the concentration of press ownership, an independent agency freely evaluating and criticizing the press's performance is the only answer...
...gains of the war. It is in a position where "it normally could begin to roll back prices." Then why doesn't it? There are several reasons, as G.E.'s president sees it. For one, industry has to know what the Government policy will be on price control. More important, it must know what union labor intends...
Mehl wanted the power to regulate commodity margins as the Federal Reserve Board regulates stock margins. He pointed out that since Oct. 7, when the grain exchanges had boosted their margins to 33⅓%, speculation has "declined sharply." Commodity traders, who are dead set against any governmental control of margins, took no comfort from Mehl's report. But New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried that Mehl had performed a "public service" in showing how high stock exchange margins had helped bring on the speculation in commodities. However, Schram thought that the answer was not to raise commodity...