Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, was dropped; militant Falange Chief José Luis de Arrese was shifted to the Ministry of Housing; José Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of the party, was made minister without portfolio. The Falange was furious, called these changes an attempt to deal the party "a death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time strengthened the position of other Monarchists in the Cabinet. The jubilant Monarchists later threw a huge party at the Ritz...
...party policy to support the Tory stand on Suez; and a third candidate, representing a Welsh nationalist party, declared herself as "not anti-anything, just constructive." When the votes were all in, Laborite Lady Megan was the victor by 3,069 votes. "A great victory for Labor. A reeling blow for the government," crowed Lady Megan...
...than one-third Negro: "The Communist Party is about to go out of business. There's no place for it in Chicago or any other place in America." And from Manhattan's Dave Dubinsky, who had been individually applauded by the Communists in convention, came the hardest blow to their "labor-peoples' antimonopoly" project. Said the president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers in a comment that could be repeated by many another U.S. labor leader: "We have fought them since they first appeared on the American scene, and we shall continue to fight them...
...Massachusetts Federation of Labor struck a new blow in its fight against the state 3% sales tax on Monday, when it announced the distribution of a 12-page pamphlet assailing Governor Furcolo's proposed tax plan. It called instead for revision of the existing state income...
Thus intransigence fed intransigence. If there is no early settlement in the Middle East, the standing of both the U.S. and the U.N., as the key peacemakers, will suffer a serious blow. Even more serious is the prospect that the exchange across the Gaza Strip might once again shift from words to bullets and bombs...