Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians. In the Illinois Senate he introduced only one bill, providing for a legislative council to map the work of the next session. At the moment he is specifically advocating more civil service, "perfecting" the National Labor Relations Board, "birth control" of bills in Congress, giving ex-Presidents seats in the Senate. He also wants to abolish the job he is running for by reapportioning the State's Congressional districts...
...Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, got the snuffles and took to his bed one day last week. They were lucky snuffles, for they enabled Mr. Martin to postpone a meeting of his international executive board, at which he was in a fair way to lose control...
...Lewis in Maryland, was proven ineffective. Against the machines of the Senators unPurged, and reinstalled for another six years, the Purge machinery can hardly be expected to nominate delegates to the Democratic national convention of 1940. To perpetuate his Liberal program, in person or by proxy, Franklin Roosevelt must control that convention or found a third party and with it carry the country. After a Purge that did not purge, these tasks looked more formidable than before. Senator George sounded almost as though he were issuing an ultimatum to Franklin Roosevelt when he gently said last week: "All great Democrats...
...certain, month by month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...
WARSAW--Poland tonight told Soviet Russia in effect that she intends to go ahead with her program to regain control of the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia regardless of what Moscow may think about...