Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...
Inverse Ratio. Poland's Communists are now fighting their third and fourth battles, for control of the schools and the middle class. "We can never win the old people," one Communist frankly told me, "so we must educate the youth our way." They handpick the teachers, and even have a "social commission" to control all exams and make sure that every pupil is "correct" in his social thinking before he can pass, no matter how high his scholastic grades...
...move to control the middle class is a new Communist-dominated commission to fix taxes for townspeople. A citizen's rate of tax is in inverse ratio to his rate of cooperation...
...Socialists. But both parties know it will come. One Socialist M.P. told me: "We provide nearly all the government's support; the Communists have all the power." The Socialists do have six cabinet ministers, including Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz. But the Communists manage the ministries that matter. They control the army, the secret police, education, military courts (where the significant trials are held), foreign trade, and Poland's entire economic life...
...bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they sometimes failed of their...