Word: anas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny day in Bucharest, as the story goes, a friend stopped Ana Pauker in the street and asked: "Ana, why are you carrying an umbrella? It's not raining." Replied Rumania's No. i Communist: "It's raining in Moscow. I heard it on the radio." Last week fat Ana Pauker had her umbrella up; it was raining horribly in Moscow...
...first time. Early in 1941, while she was in a Rumanian prison, Prime Minister Antonescu had the idea of exchanging Ana for a leader of the Peasant Party, Ion Codreanu, held by the Russians. The Russians wanted a package deal: they would trade Codreanu for Ana and another Rumanian Communist named Gheorghiu-Dej. When Antonescu insisted on a one-for-one trade, the Russians were quite ready to let Ana rot in jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into...
Robert H. Williams of Santa Ana, Calif, has still another pitch. Williams, onetime ghostwriter for Columnist Upton Close, publishes a monthly newsletter, Williams Intelligence Summary. In mid-1951, he carefully trimmed a 1945 news photo of four Allied generals toasting the Allied victory in Europe, at which time Russia's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov presented Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery with Russian victory medals. The Williams version left Ike and Zhukov alone in what was intended to look like a suspiciously friendly pose (see cut). Williams printed and is still circulating the picture with the caption...
...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; Clovis, N. Mex. News-Journal; Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat; Odessa, Texas American; Pampa, Texas News...
Until three months ago, few valley Texans had ever heard of Hoiles. Then, for $2,000,000, his Freedom Newspapers Inc. bought the three main valley dailies-the Brownsville Herald, Harlingen's Morning Star and McAllen's Evening Monitor (total circ. 37,500). From his Santa Ana, Calif, headquarters, old "R.C." himself rode into the valley on a bus to reshape the papers according to Hoiles. He threw out Drew Pearson's column, replaced him with Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky, and his own column. His favorite campaign: a bitter, continuous assault on public schools on the ground...