Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over the example of Richard Nixon, 36th Vice President of the U.S., who is one of the busiest, most useful and most influential men in Washington...
...told. At the huge banquet given Nov. 7 by Foreign Minister Molotov to honor the 36th anniversary of the October revolution, almost all of the Soviet bigwigs-with the exception of Malenkov himself-and hundreds of lesser wigs gathered with members of Moscow's foreign diplomatic corps. As the evening wore on and tongues loosened by vodka and champagne began to wag more freely, the Westerners were able to get a significant insight into the frictions chafing the present sons of the revolution...
Cold War Fanned. Later in the week, at the celebration of the 36th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, old Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, spoke in bellicose tones. "It is known to all," said he, "that through the zealous efforts of aggressive circles in the U.S.A., the cold war continues and is being fanned briskly . . . The imperialist camp ... is conducting a policy of preparing...
...proposal, offered at a panel meeting of the Council's 36th annual convention in Washington, was based on a statement made Thursday by Harry D. Gideonese, president of Brooklyn College. Gideonese had praised the committee's search for subversives in the New York City school system...
...next Nov. 7, the revolution's 36th anniversary, Upper Row will be back to its historic use as one of Moscow's biggest shopping centers. In its Czarist heyday half a century ago, the Upper Row-one of three huge sandstone arcades, three stories high and glass-roofed, newly built at a cost of $3,000,000-boasted 1,000 shops. Came the revolution, the end of private industry and the proliferation of bureaucracy: the shops eventually became offices...