Word: 1930s
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...unschooled Ukrainian peasant who came to wield power undreamt of by the czars. He was a custodian of the nuclear peace, yet he frequently rattled the Soviet saber, once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial reminiscences that restored...
...after studying a few years at Moscow's industrial academy and rising steadily in the party hierarchy, Khrushchev became party leader of Moscow. He survived the party purges of the 1930s, he believed, because Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, was impressed by him and recommended him to her husband. "I've often asked myself, how was I spared?" Khrushchev later said. "I think part of the answer is that Nadya's reports helped determine Stalin's attitude toward me. I call it my lucky lottery ticket. Right up to the last...
Economic Imperialism. In one sense the monetary crisis was clearly the most pressing problem. But the 10% surtax on U.S. imports foreshadowed potentially far more dangerous consequences. Protective tariffs in the early 1930s divided the world into trade blocs that brought international commerce almost to a standstill and gave a major impetus to the growth of economic imperialism in Europe and the Far East. For the past 25 years, the U.S. has championed free trade and economic internationalism. Observed the London Daily Telegraph: "The danger of Mr. Nixon's approach to the dollar's longstanding problems is that...
SAVANNAH, GA., is a river city near the coast that has been restored to its antebellum splendor-except for its bustling port. In fact, so passionately did city fathers court a giant paper mill during the 1930s that they obligated the city to "protect and save" the mill "from any claims, demands or suits for the pollution of air or water." In the event of a suit, the city agreed to pay the first $5,000 of the company's legal costs. Today the paper mill has been joined by a clutch of chemical companies and other industries...
...English. Born in 1885 in an Idaho mining town, he flourished from 1907 in London and Paris as the friend of Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, the discoverer of Frost, the teacher of Eliot (who dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made...