Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What About Taft? For the rest of the day and well into the evening, Douglas kept at it through a full 20 speeches. The advice: re-elect Lucas, without whom "we would have lost rent control," who "led the fight for increasing the minimum wage from 40? to 75? . . . Are there any questions?" "What about Senator Taft?" somebody yelled. Said Douglas, borrowing an old gag: "He's a good fellow until he makes up his mind. Then he makes it up wrong. I hear he's coming into Illinois to try to beat Senator Lucas. That...
...closest races of the 1950 campaign, both sides were working up to an all-out effort. For Democrats and Republicans alike, Illinois was a critical battlefront. Republicans were counting on Candidate Dirksen as a top bet to pick up one of the seven seats they needed to upset Democratic control of the Senate. Next to beating Taft in Ohio, Truman Democrats were most deeply interested in saving the political hide of Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
Then, in 1947, Bill Drury got too energetic in his hunt for the killers of Racing Wire Czar James Ragen. It was taken for granted that The Outfit got Drury fired because he was getting too hot on the trail of a most delicate matter: complete control of Chicago's fabulously rich bookie business...
...Vienna's Quadripartite Control Council, which hitherto had been considered a model of four-power cooperation, American High Commissioner Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes produced a sheaf of evidence that the Red army had instigated and helped the riots. Russian Deputy Commissioner Lieut. General G. K. Tsinev huffed & puffed about "slanderous allegations," refused assurances demanded by Keyes that the Reds would not do it again. Next day, the Communists announced that, unless the government rescinded its wage-price edict, they would call a general strike this week...
Both the North and South Korean states appointed provisional governors for the provinces in the other's control. Exiles in South Korea also formed specific associations representing each county in North Korea. Lee expects that these men will return to the areas from which they came and set up temporary governments until the time of the first all-Korean elections. Lee hopes that balloting will take place May 10, 1951, the 3rd anniversary of the first free election in South Korea...