Word: independente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He controls the Civil Service Commission which had been independent of politics for eight years. He has pulled Louisiana State University-where the bonfire of scandal burst after Huey's death-back under the governor's domination.
Congress would create a new Cabinet post, the Secretary of Administration, who would supervise some of Washington's most important independent agencies, such as the Bureau of the Budget, the Civil Service Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission, ECA. And the Vice President would be this new tenth member of...
Localized Zigzags. Li, Ho or Fu (or any other successor to Chiang) would have great difficulty uniting the Kuomintang behind him. The mere mention of their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on...
Winner Browning had been elected governor (with Crump backing) in 1936, was overthrown two years later-when Boss Crump found him too "independent." He had piled up an impressive record in World War II and he campaigned aggressively. At week's end Browning's lead was more than...
By Fleet Street standards, London's respected independent Sunday Observer (circ. 384,000) is not a very big paper, but it is accounted a very good one. It has only a twentieth the circulation of the garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times...