Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent weeks Iraqi Communists have used their virtually unchallenged control of the country's press and radio to push for their next objective: membership in Premier Karim Kassem's Cabinet. Last fortnight mild-spoken General Kassem replied with characteristic obliqueness: "I do not encourage parties and party life at present." The Reds continued to praise Kassem as "our savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists...
...there are black commissioners of police, black generals of the army, black air vice marshals?" Far better would be to partition the country up into black and white units. "I would have no hesitation in choosing a smaller white state [in which] the white man would be able to control his own destiny. This I would prefer, whatever the tribulations might be." Soon after, the bill sailed through...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
...made only by the Administration and the Faculty, and there is understandable doubt that the Council can convince the powers that be. In the only other sphere of Council influence, undergraduate organizations, there is general agreement that student groups should retain independence and not be subject to Council control...
...Council is not, however, intended to be a student control over administration policy. Nor is it supposed to be a legislative body or an advisory body representing the concensus of students. It is, rather, a means of keeping the Faculty and Administration aware of student opinion and of enabling students to have a voice in policy. Often the results will be negligible; occasionally they will be spectacular...