Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining princely states in India, fewer than 50 have more than half a million people. All the princely states except big Hyderabad (16,000,000) have surrendered control of their defense, communications and transport to the central government...
...later said: "The Department [of Agriculture] has no intention of re-employing the Roerichs." In Manhattan, Roerich's chief financial backer, Louis L. Horch, a broker later turned bureaucrat, who had put more than $1,000,000 into the Riverside Drive Museum, went to court to get back control of the building. The thousand paintings were unslung from the museum walls. Later the U.S. Government sued Roerich for back taxes. Pegler devoted 25 columns to suggesting that Wallace wrote letters calling Roerich "Dear Guru" (Teacher...
...famed boys' choir of the Dresden Kreuzkirche in the Russian zone was scheduled to sing songs of all nations. Although all four occupying powers had approved the choir's appearance, a German employee of the American Information Control Division, on his own authority, notified the Russians that the choir would have to be banned. The choir's conductor, he said, had not yet been de-Nazified...
...soon as the indiscretion was discovered, the head of the American Control Division called the Russians and told them that the German employee had no such authority. But it was too late. The hypersensitive Russians had already withdrawn the choir and their participation. The party...
...Jouhaux was sad. He had devoted 38 years of his life to building up the C.G.T. He wanted the Force Ouvrière rebels to wait until the September union elections, when he thought control of the C.G.T. could be wrested from the Reds. When he ended his speech a few hands clapped out of respect for the Old Man. But a speaker who followed him and echoed his sentiments got boos and catcalls. At 11 p.m. Jouhaux shuffled wearily from the hall...