Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butcher at Work. Russians occupy the chief positions in all Albanian government departments. Soviet Minister Dmitri Chuvakhin is reported to hold Albanian cabinet meetings in his own legation. Last important Albanian minister to be critical of the Russians was Deputy Premier Koci Xoxe, friend of Yugoslavia. He was executed in June 1949. Since then the Central Committee of the Albanian Workers' Party (Communist) has gone through several purges. The new Deputy Premier and Chief of Police is an Albanian named Mehmet Shehu (rhymes with say who), a Moslem who fought for Stalin in the Spanish civil...
When an attempt was made to bomb the Soviet legation last February, Shehu put Tirana under nightly curfew, ordered his police to shoot on sight anyone seen in the streets, set up secret courts to dispose of suspects. Shehu, known as "the butcher," commands a well-equipped army of 70,000, whose main function is maintaining internal order...
Price officials glibly estimated that their day's work would roll beef prices back to pre-Korea levels, save housewives an estimated $700 million a year. Lower prices should be seen in butcher shops by Aug. 1, they said, and by Oct. 1 beef should be down about 10? a Ib. In New York and other cities, beef prices are the highest they have ever been, and there is also a shortage of beef, although the U.S. cattle population is 2% to 3% higher than last year. Di Salle's men said that even after they had rolled...
...Peronistas, led by Deputy José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher and boss of the Anti-Argentine Activities Committee which closed dozens of opposition papers last year, could not silence the opposition utterly. Boldly facing the booing government benches, Radical Deputy Arturo Frondizi cried: "Yes, you are full of power-but also full of fear ... If there is any campaign against Argentina outside the country, it is because the regime has liquidated all freedom inside the country...
...most effective controls on meat began to come last week from the housewives themselves. They were refusing to pay $1.30 a Ib. for loin of lamb, $1.10 and up for sirloin, as much as 70^ for hamburger. "The way people are buying," grumped Chicago Butcher Louis Blut, "I think they are living...