Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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More surprising, the onetime consultant on Far East affairs seemed to have turned his back on the State Department. Truman's foreign policy, Lattimore said, is in "disgraceful chaos," and under the control of "a weird crew of ex-isolationists, ex-Communists, pro-Nazi propagandists, fanatics and cranks working inside and outside of Congress...
Harvard & Hunting Dogs. In 1904, after Rhee had been behind bars for seven years, the Russo-Japanese War began and in the confusion which gripped Korea a nationalist group temporarily seized control of the Korean government. Rhee was released from prison, headed for the U.S. as a special envoy of the new government. He tried to persuade President Theodore Roosevelt that Korea should not be handed over to Japan in the Russo-Japanese peace conference which Roosevelt had arranged. Roosevelt, Rhee remembers, "received me cordially" at Oyster Bay; but Rhee's request to attend the peace conference was refused...
...porteños really thought that the new price-control campaign would be any more successful in the long run than its predecessors. Years of cumbersome and inefficient state trade manipulation and Perónista economics had put strains on the old prewar price structure which no amount of makeshift shoring up could relieve. But for the time being this week, Buenos Aires merchants were dutifully keeping their eyes on the new price lists and waiting for the heat to die down...
...some respects, the world seemed to have changed little in the last 100 years. Said Harper's in 1851: "It is supposed that in case of war Russia is able to send into the field not less than 800,000 men. This immense disposable force, absolutely under the control of the Emperor, renders the power of Russia imminently dangerous to the peace of Europe." At home Harper's kept its editorial finger on the pulse of a lively, swiftly changing nation. It reported that in San Francisco in 1855, "the places of universal resort were the Drinking Saloon...
...opposed the requirement that all cases of tuberculosis be reported to a public authority--the foundation of tuberculosis control...