Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Supreme Court decided the status of unions under the Sherman Act. Essence of the decision: strikes (including sitdowns), organizational drives, other normal union activities are not within the act's purview. But unions "are to some extent and in some circumstances subject to the act" (i.e., when price control, other trade restraints are primary purposes rather than incidental effects...
...began. "Our men at sea, on land and in the air are fighting with splendid devotion and spirit. The Government is convinced that now is the time that we must mobilize to the full the whole resources of this country. . . . It is necessary that the Government be given complete control over persons and property-not only over some persons, but over all persons, rich or poor, employer or worker, man or woman...
...Bill which Parliament was about to be asked to approve was technically an extension of one passed Aug. 24, giving the King wide powers to govern by decree in wartime-on advice of his Privy Council (Cabinet members and others appointed by the King). Practically, it gave the Cabinet control of every British asset in toil and treasure to fight the war. Socially and politically it withdrew from the British people the rights of person and property they had wrested from King John at Runnymede 725 years ago, and from the British working class the hard-won reforms...
...discovering the secrets of German magnetic mines and how to beat them. Dr. Lindemann, whose friends call him "Prof," was a pioneer advocate of the present London balloon barrage, years ago vainly urged the Air Ministry to build fleets of robot planes which would be sent up by radio control to crash head-on into enemy bombers...
Reds. Working at cross-purposes until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling...