Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Eisenhower was so enthusiastic about Benton's idea that he felt he might "expose a sense of frustration trying to express how deeply I do agree." Truth, he said, should be the U.S.'s "T-bomb," under control of "a general staff of a new kind," divorced from the State Department and "headed by some great American." Bernard Baruch thought that the job ought to go to "a body of thinkers," reporting directly to the President...
Speaking at Colchester, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey called the Schuman Plan "this plot," and attacked the coal-steel authority as "an irresponsible international body free from all democratic control." In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill demanded an explanation of this inflammatory speech. Harassed Prime Minister Attlee tried to defend Strachey, ended by saying himself that it was "perfectly fair" to say the Schuman Plan would put very wide powers "into the hands of an irresponsible authority...
...rare survivor of a half-forgotten movement which flourished in the early '303. Technocracy was founded by Howard .Scott, an engineering theorist, on the principle that under the present price system the machine is destroying man's chance to earn a living. By "functional control" of production and distribution-including the substitution of energy certificates for money-the Technocrats still claim they can wangle a comfortable living for everybody...
Many Salvadoreans were convinced that the only way to put over a bond issue was to sell it to the "Twenty Families," the big coffee planters who control the republic's economy. Tucker agreed that the project needed the Twenty Families' strong moral support; but their money, he said, would be better employed in private investment. Instead, he offered a revolutionary plan...
Died. Metropolitan Theophilus (Fedor Pashkovsky), 76, Russian-born primate of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America; in San Francisco. Admitting his church's spiritual dependence on the patriarchate of Moscow, he firmly denied Patriarch Alexei's claims to administrative control...