Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control that is enforced by the state, said the President, is a police method of getting the people to cooperate. And sometimes it has to be done. But in a free country it should be done with the agreement of all the people...
That ended the conference. Scrambling for the pressroom, the newsmen knew they had a headline for the day. Harry Truman, although he' had once pleaded with Congress for retention of price control, now seemed to be against any Government regulation whatever. And he seemed to have thoroughly confused police-state edicts with rules freely adopted in a democracy by congressional action...
Discussions last week which began with "Well, what should we do?" got lost in guesses and by-Gods. One of the most dubious guesses was the Administration's guess that it might be able to control prices by persuading people to save food, while it went ahead with its program of buying grain to feed Europe. Those were two birds flying in different directions which could not be brought down with the same stone...
...C.I.O.'s ninth annual convention in Boston last week, which a lot of delegates expected to be a Donnybrook Fair between the left and the right, turned out to be more like a day at Sunnybrook Farm. Shrewd Phil Murray had it firmly under control...
James MacDonald, the wee Scot who coaches the Crimson, expects a contest much like that of the Army game, for Dartmouth features the same rough, long-passing game as the Cadets use. The Crimson plays a short passing attack emphasizing ball control...