Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liaison man at Supreme Allied headquarters, became the go-between for General Eisenhower and the scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side on such bills as this year's four-year extension of reciprocal...
...There seems virtually no chance that Republicans can recapture control of either the House of Representatives or the Senate," reported Political Pulse Taker Sam Lubell this week. But Lubell, one of the few honest-to-grassroots doorbell ringers among the pollsters, found enough puzzling circumstances in his just completed eleven-state tour to make him hedge his predictions. "On many important issues," he wrote, "the voters are almost evenly torn between conflicting emotions. Effective campaigning could bring about a fairly close-fought election...
...think Guerard justifies the whole of his interpretation here. For one thing, he is inconsistent; he speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught...
...Deans, Watson said that he personally thinks that it is "not healthy" for the Student Council to have to solicit funds at registration, although he does not favor a complete subsidy from the Administration. He emphasized, however, that any money would go directly to the Council without control from the Dean's Office, and would be withheld only if the Council "fell into disrepute," or ceased to function as intended...
Such a step might even prove a rallying point for the fearful idealists, turning their battle for a public iniquity in the name of private rights into a consistent defense of a traditionally private area of discretion and control. For any attempt to legislate or adjudicate the composition of genuine private schools, as the moral sense of the rest of the nation would require, would set a new precedent in the extension of public power and diminution of personal autonomy...