Word: 1930s
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...worked for foreign anti-Soviet organizations and received payment from Western journalists for passing on material critical of the U.S.S.R. The dissident movement, said Yakir and Krasin, was a foreign plot. For longtime Moscow hands, the chilling recital recalled the public confessions at the purge trials of the 1930s. Soviet spokesmen went out of their way last week, however, to insist that the conviction of Yakir and Krasin did not represent a return to Stalinism...
That blessed event was midwifed by the match with Court and the vast interest it created in the Riggs shtik. An ecstatic Bobby suddenly captured the fame that had eluded him even when he was the nation's top amateur tennis player in the late 1930s. After he signed with Promoter Jerry Perenchio, president of Tandem Productions* (Maude, All in the Family, Sanford & Son), Tandem sent him on a promotional trip to Beverly Hills...
...delegates to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches met in Amsterdam, Swiss Theologian Karl Barth gave the ecumenical gathering a stern warning. "We are not the ones to change this evil world into a good one," he said. Yet Barth himself had found in the 1930s that his Christian conscience required him to support the defiant German "Confessing Church" in opposing Nazism...
Henry Kissinger's nomination as Secretary of State serves as a reminder that, after the Albert Einsteins and the Arturo Toscaninis, already-distinguished refugees from the European fascism of the 1930s, a whole new generation of immigrants have made contributions to the U.S. Among them...
...major construction projects underway now in the Yard are probably the last buildings that will be built there for some time. They represent the most concentrated modernization effort the Yard has seen since the early 1930s, when both Wigglesworth Hall and Memorial Church were under construction...