Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Bridges' men got another blow. George Aguiar, a member of the legislature from the island of Kauai, resigned from the territorial Democratic Party, charged that its control on Kauai was in the hands of I.L.W.U. straw bosses. He joined Ignacio's revolt...
...knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
...Lake Success last week, forlornly huddled at one end of a vast committee room, the Atomic Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead with the '"majority plan" (the U.S. plan), blueprinting the structure and operations of an international control body, even down to financing. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people...
...supposed to work out control of germ warfare, too. It will get around to that when & if the Russians ever agree to atomic control...
...Labor Party had already censured the British Communists' most eloquent spokesman, who is not a Communist-burly, buck-toothed Konni ("Zilly") Zilliacus, intellectual Laborite M.P. who wants Britain to help Communist Russia set up control of Europe against U.S. "imperialists." Zilly and twelve other Labor M.P.s who follow the Russian line had recently sent a friendly message to the Russian-sponsored "People's Congress" in Berlin. The Parliamentary Labor Party passed a resolution that "This meeting . .. dissociates itself from the message . . . [which] in no way reflects [our] attitude or views...