Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dewey desperately wanted a rent-control law that would operate whether or not federal controls were extended. Such a bill would also be a fine vote getter for Dewey-and so all the Democrats, under orders from State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, refused to vote for a rent bill Dewey could take credit for. Three of his own Republicans in the senate were also against it. That left Dewey one vote short...
Dewey turned the matter over to his senate leader, brisk, pugnacious Art Wicks. Then, taking a leaf from Harry Truman's successful book, Dewey proclaimed that the people of New York were going to have rent control even if he had to call a special session...
...listen, for he had some personal problems. The state courts had been meddling in real-estate assessments in Albany, which are carefully adjusted to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies. Democrat Dan found that annoying. Furthermore, if & when the state took over rent control, O'Connell would have another problem: the Albany staff of the Federal Housing Expediter, which happens to be stuffed with O'Connell men, would be out of work...
...sure indication that Munro is serious in his optimism is the fact that the sticks, or crosses, have been lengthened this year. Short sticks, which the coach considers to be a "New England fad," are easier to control, but Munro believes that the team "has shown enough improvement to warrant the longer crosses...
...material to foreign agents or members of "Communist organizations," the other levelling the same penalties against anyone who "knowingly combines, conspires, or agrees with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of any foreign government, foreign organization, or foreign individual...