Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Control of the House in the 82nd Congress stayed in the hands of the Democrats by a substantial majority, but one that would be reduced from the 259-169 division in the 81st Congress. Republicans stood to gain at least 23 seats, perhaps as many...
...stunning blow to Boss Flynn, who had engineered Mayor O'Dwyer's resignation in the ill-founded hope that a special city election might stir up a big enough straight Democratic vote to sweep the whole state. Big Jim Farley, out of favor since Flynn got control, had backed Impy. The new mayor, who promptly announced that he was going to go back to being a Democrat, swore that he would stay "unbossed and uncontrolled" and be "mayor for all the people...
...were, the rebels were no match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...
...courage and some results. There is nothing to keep them from developing a draft program fast so college students, and especially graduating high school students, can have some idea of how to plan their futures. The Congress must also act quickly on such priority issues as price and rent control legislation, reconstruction aid for the Philippines, Korea, and possibly Yugoslavia. Above all there is a matter of taxes...
McCarthyism" may have been the deciding factor in Tuesday's big Republican gains, four professors said last night. At the same time, another group agreed that the Republicans were better off not having complete control of Congress...