Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the bloody election-day revolution of G.I. veterans had swept him out of office (circuit court clerk) last year (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains...
Purpose of the meeting, as reported in full by Moscow's Pravda: to coordinate Communist forces against U.S. imperialism and wreck the Marshall Plan, which the congress called a U.S. device for the economic and political control of the world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German...
...control the inflation China needs now a portion of the credits we have envisaged, perhaps $75 million. The remainder of the $200 million for the first year of our Three Year Plan can await action by the Congress; but either from the U.S. foreign relief program or the Export-Import Bank, or some other source, this $75 million must be obtained in the next 30 days...
...Cambridge, a large number of student votes could easily prove the balancing factor in a close race. The slight five to four majority for the proponents of Managerial Government in the Cambridge City Council indicates the respective power of opposing factions and points towards a heated struggle for governmental control...
...resigned at the end of last season, but their new mentor, the assistant coach in 1946, is a follower of the traditional West Point principles of emphasizing condition and contact while minimizing tricky maneuvers. Whereas the Cadets generally play a slam-bang, long-passing game, the Crimson emphasizes ball control and short passes between the halfbacks and forwards...