Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Christian Socialists, Belgium's largest party and the only one solidly backing Leopold, had a slim majority in the outgoing Senate but were two seats short of controlling the House of Representatives. By picking up a few more seats in the House, they hoped to control both branches of the incoming Parliament, form a one-party government, bring Leopold back. Actually they did win control of the House (108 seats to the combined opposition's 104), but in the face of surprising Socialist gains, there was a faint chance that the Christian Socialists would lose control...
...Certainly the country is better off with some control of credit than without it, and the authority to control credit should be broadened and strengthened," he said...
Sponge in the Ring. Like many another anti-German paper, Le Figaro closed its doors when the Vichy government took over unoccupied France in 1942. Two years later, the liberation government licensed Director Brisson to start publication again-virtually ignoring Mme. Cotnareanu and her 97% stock control. In & out of the French courts, Mme. Cotnareanu fought to get editorial control as well. Since she lived in New York City, she wanted Brisson to adopt what she termed "an American policy," reflecting the views of the U.S. State Department. Brisson refused, continued what he called his France-first policy that sometimes...
...time the chemist slips out of the bear hug, the U.S. Army, Navy and FBI are hunting him down like a lost gram of plutonium. Faced with Government control on either side of the political divide, the chemist surrenders to Big Business, and safe in a gilded cage, with a gorgeous chickadee to keep him company, he settles back to watch his pill take effect...
Wind & Dollars. By the time it ends (with the millennium safely postponed by Government control of the pill), Author Norris has jabbed his needle left & right, high & low, popping gas pockets all over the current scene. Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine...