Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...Braimah told it, an Armenian building contractor named Askor Kassardjian had once sought his help, as Minister of Works, to get a contract to build a college. Kassardjian got the contract, and a few days later dropped into Braimah's home to pay a social call. He left a bundle under one of the cushions, and when Braimah opened it, he found 500 one-pound notes ($1,400). On another occasion, after a drive with Kassardjian, the minister found another ?500 in a brown paper parcel...
Judging by precedent and by the measure of closeness of association with Beria and his gang, the next victims might well be Anastas Mikoyan, 58, the Armenian Minister of Internal Trade, and possibly Vyacheslav Molotov. Mikoyan brought Beria, "the worst enemy of the motherland," into the party fold. Molotov promoted Dekanozov, "an archtraitor...
Cheegah Choonem (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Just two years after her Come on-a My House (and one after its sequel, Botcha-Me), the new Mrs. José Ferrer lights into another jangling, Armenian-style ditty with about as much vocal gaiety as can be crammed into the grooves. Title translation: "I haven...
Much of the ballad public, with a passion for oversimplification, prefers to believe that Rosemary Clooney was created overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere...