Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations...
...control of fifth-column activities...
...conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry caused sleepless nights to the quasi-Führers at Vichy...
...after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip the button." Promptly over the Don Lee network went the following...
Californians fought to keep control of the pack. Last year fishermen enjoyed a North-South price war, which hoisted prices from $90 to as high as $150 a ton for their catch. Oregon finally topped California by a standing offer of $2.50 more than any price California wanted to name. (Apparently chastened, neither side has moved to start a new war this season.) California packers next carried the fight to Washington, asked the Federal Trade Commission for permission to label their tuna extra fancy. Thompson and his friends, new hosts to the albacore, claimed that only their tuna merited such...