Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
Sweeping Out. When the ballots were counted, Walter Reuther had complete control of the giant union. Reutherites dominated the U.A.W. executive board by an overwhelming 18-to-4 majority. Most important of all, Reuther's three strongest enemies - Secretary-Treasurer Addes, Vice Presidents "Tommy" Thomas and Richard T. Leonard-were booted clean out of office...
...write a treaty, as a sort of coffin for the bones of Germany. They will not, however, need to buy the coffin. They can rent it temporarily, like the coffins in Berlin. Unless the Russians accept, as they probably will not, the year-old U.S. offer of a control treaty over Germany, the bones of contention in Central Europe will remain uncoffined and unquiet...
...they include the beaten and disintegrating Qualunquists (Common Man Front) and the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is frankly fascist but small and weak. Actually the Communist target was the pro-Western, Christian Democratic Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist objective was to test the efficiency and self-control of the Government police...
...danger. President Dutra's own P.S.D. (Social Democratic Party) had splintered beneath him. In a highly significant local election last week, Fascist-minded Getulio Vargas, dictator for 15 years, and sallow Luis Carlos Prestes, the Communist he kept jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor...