Word: ans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposition to the Socialists had been growing steadily for ten years. Their parliamentary majority had declined. As 1949's campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in...
In 1855, the aging Implacable was placed in honorable retirement as a training ship. One by one, as young future admirals learned to walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she...
The C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than...
This week the Roman Catholic bishopsof Czechoslovakia came to open defiance of the Communist government'snew laws to control and suppress the church (TIME, Nov. 14). In a letter to Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky, the bishops told how they had tried to meet the government at least halfway, had...
Rich, smart, handsome and popular, Vicente Eli Saadi seemed to have just what it takes for a brilliant political career. When a vacancy in the federal Senate occurred in the Argentine province of Catamarca three years ago, Deputy Saadi, the son of Syrian immigrants, was elected to the job by...