Word: brief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumble of moving furniture came again last week from the blank-walled Soviet fortress. This time it was a brief official announcement that Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, 53, had been "relieved of his duties" as Minister of Armed Forces and replaced in that post by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky (also 53). Again speculation buzzed through the free world. What did this rumble mean...
Robson, who will be introduced by Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government, is speaking under the auspices of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Now on a brief visit to the University, he is well known as an authority on the problems of English local government and administrative...
...boys to seek public office. His mother heard the news in Chicago, and confided to readers of "My Day": "I was a little appalled by this announcement." Besides his glamorous name, young Franklin had a good Navy record as a destroyer officer (Silver Star, Legion of Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing ranks. Franklin also had some impressive supporters, all of them conveniently remote from the 20th's immediate concerns: Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, New York's former Governor Herbert Lehman, the ailing U.S. Senator Bob Wagner...
Last summer, Capp pinch hit for Drew Pearson as commentator on "Washington Merry-go-round" while Pearson was vacationing. During that brief spell of radio work, Capp sensed and expressed resentment about sponsors' interference with broadcasts...
Wasteland Wonder. For California, it was an agricultural milestone. In three brief years California had become the fifth biggest U.S. cotton producer (its 1948 crop: 960,000 bales, 6.4% of the U.S. total). Last year, California grew $148 million worth of cotton, making it the state's No. 1 crop, well ahead of grapes ($102 million) and oranges ($96 million...