Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation's most workable law against racial discrimination, had cleaned out graft in workingmen's compensation and renovated cobwebby mental and public health programs. When it came right down to brass tacks, most New York Republicans and many Democrats hated to see Tom Dewey...
...Lodge on four, a onetime governor on six. Amid the general fuss and clutter, two men, in a feud that was both personal and political, worked hardest to collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party control he had o«ce held as Connecticut Republicanism's boy wonder, only to be stripped of his state chairmanship six years ago. On the eighth floor reigned the man he sought to dethrone: big Harold Mitchell, the party head. Mitchell had chosen Lodge as his candidate...
...Communists lost control of an important political weapon-France's social security system. The purse strings of the French "securite sociale," which last year paid out 426 billion francs ($1.2 billion) to ease the French workers' path from cradle to grave, are held by 234 regional boards. Both workers and employers elect representatives to sit on the boards. Three years ago, France's Communist labor unions managed to elect 60% of the board members. Two weeks ago 5½ million French workers went to the polls to elect new social security representatives. When the returns were counted...
...dispatches to the New York Times. Out of the range of Prague's Communist censors, he wrote at length and in detail. His dispatches, published in the Times last week, gave a sharp picture of the tragedy that enveloped Czechoslovakia 28 months ago when the Communists seized control...
...Christian doctrine of providence was inconvenient to the rising bourgeois man because it seemed to estimate the forces of historical destiny, beyond the control of the human will, too highly, and did not conform to the self-confidence of the new commercial civilization . . . The Christian conception of man's sinfulness was in conflict with the easy conscience of modern man, who sought the cause of historical evil in ignorance, in social institutions, in everything but in himself...