Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Things began to move. An unpublicized bill, sponsored by Senator Art Wicks, suddenly zipped through both houses. It sharply restricted the power of courts to cut Albany assessments. At the same time the G.O.P. rent-control bill was amended, directing the state administrator to take over any federal employees he wished (e.g., O'Connell's Democrats in Albany...
...Connell delivered. To the astonishment of his fellow Democrats, Peter J. Dalessandro of Albany County, 28, the youngest man in the senate, abruptly announced that he was going to vote for Dewey's bill after all. The state needed rent control, and the G.O.P. bill was the only one with a chance of passage, he explained. Ex-Sergeant Dalessandro had won the Congressional Medal of Honor when, his outpost surrounded by Germans, he ordered his company's mortar battery: "O.K., let me have it-right on this position." Last week he was getting it again from outraged Democrats...
Westernization was brought to Siam largely by her own people who went abroad to study. In the 19203 a group of young Siamese revolutionists formed in Paris' Left Bank cafes. Two of them were Pridhi Banomyong and Phibun Songgram, who were to become rivals and to alternate in control of modern Siam. The revolutionists returned in 1932 to stage a coup which made Siam a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok ceased to be the last absolute monarch left in the world...
...choice was Marietta, Ohio (pop. 19,500), where the calm Ohio River (see map) bends gradually along a three-mile course with dams above and below it that control the currents. The crews can be comfortably housed in Marietta College dormitories, and the Baltimore & Ohio has promised an observation train. Pleased as punch with the coup, Marietta boosters were already starting a $20,000 fund-raising campaign to take care of the visitors...
...undesired effect of cheapening a fair cause. In this instance the cause is the right of the Catholic Church to teach and sustain Christianity in its own way. To some extent. The Cardinal is an outright, often vigorous pro-church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous boredom...