Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere election results added up to no trends. Of three congressional seats, the G.O.P. filled vacancies in Ohio and Indiana which had been previously held by Republicans, and in New York the Democrats kept control of the 14th District. Thousands of state legislature and city elections seesawed to a near standoff, with a slight edge for the Democrats, who registered gains in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York...
...Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four...
...time Russia" would have all these little secrets, too. The U.S. understood that the Russians would some day be able to make the bomb. That was one reason why the U.S. had offered free exchange of all information, provided only that subscribing nations submit to international inspection and control of atomic activities. That offer still stood, but the Soviet leaders had repeatedly refused it. Many of Molotov's hearers had not been, told this, but the U.S. editors acted as if their ears, too, were muffed by iron curtains...
Next day the meeting on the green took but a few minutes. The union had surrendered; the rank & file now had their representation. Then Murphy spoke: "They said I had no control over you. Well, we will throw that back at them. I say you are going back to the ship and you'll take her out this afternoon. Will you?" The response startled the birds in the trees overhead and several men raised clenched fists. "All right," said Murphy, "go back to the ship...
...last spring Yamaguchi was suffering from extreme malnutrition. Last August he collapsed from tuberculosis. In his diary the dying judge wrote: "The Food Control Law is a bad law, but as long as it is law the people must obey it. ... There are judges I know who buy on the black market pretending that their hands are clean. When I consider that I am alone in marching on death with a clean slate, I forget all my troubles and sorrows." Last month he died...