Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...light of this prospectus issued to the American people in 1932, the Program Committee has conscientiously audited the actual "state of the nation" after nearly seven years of New Deal control and before the abnormal stimulus of war demands began to blur the evidence of the basic soundness or unsoundness of the Administration's domestic policies...
Defeatism and Reaction in the New Deal. The New Deal leadership has persistently defined its program as one of hope and liberalism. And its propagandizing of its program as hopeful and liberal was sweepingly effective until the actual results of its control of the nation began to be so plainly visible. Now, however, the record shows that, whatever may be said of its ventures in social fields, in the economic field, it has been defeatist in its philosophy and reactionary in its policies...
Premier Daladier, secure in the unanimous vote of confidence which the Chamber gave him fortnight ago, stayed home nursing a cold. Onetime Premier Blum was among the first to concede that control of the press in wartime is necessary not only from the military standpoint but even for political reasons. Thus the Communist dailies of France have been entirely suppressed with the entire approval of Socialist Blum. All speakers made clear they were not attacking the Government on this issue, only making suggestions...
Germany's meat ration is one pound, 1.6 ounces per person per week. Germany takes pride that, under totalitarian control, her wholesale food prices have advanced only .5% while Great Britain's are up 24%. In World War I, Britain did not ration meat until February...
...Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...