Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the offices of Rio's Communist Tribune-Popular, the pavement was white with paper, littered with broken desks, smashed typewriters. Just three and a half hours after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops...
Radcliffe girls will get an even break in Harvard classrooms according to a statement made yesterday by John G. Ducey '44, assistant registrar of the University...
...Thropp dead," snapped the sage, "I may be Horey with age but I am still capable of Hering the questions youOchs. We won't fiddle while Rutgers Burns. Let all Pandick-monium break loose as I say Harvard 21 Rutgers...
Izvestia's editorial was the immediate cause of the break, and the U.S. attitude toward Russia was an encouragement for Brazil's action. But more important than either were the goings-on of the Communists in Brazil...
...advice from the Soviet Embassy. Soon it had made deals within Dutra's own disorganized Social Democratic Party. Reluctantly, Dutra concluded that Brazil's new democracy was getting nowhere in fighting the smooth hamstringing of organized Communism. He now hopes that strong public opinion, backing his break with Russia, will make Communism unpopular, that Congress will disenfranchise those Communists who still hold public office (e.g., one senator and 16 congressmen...