Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungarian census taken in late 1945 was unsatisfactory. It did not give enough information to serve the Communists as a record of the population's political reliability. On the basis of a new census completed Jan. 20, a card index for exclusive government use is now being set up in Communist Boss Rakosi's Central Registry offices...
...Budapest, is populated chiefly by Kelemens and Kovacses, who belong to the Paloc tribe, one of Hungary's oldest and toughest. For centuries, Kelemens and Kovacses have married only Kovacses and Kelemens, thus keeping outsiders from the village. They have not kept out Communism. The village has 250 card-holding party members. All Mikofalvians-Kelemens, Kovacses and Communists-are Roman Catholics...
When Detroit newsmen asked the police to issue new 1949 press cards-usually a routine procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
...outraged howls that rose from Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as "Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only to fires, but to waterworks and the like. There are methods of internal attack. In the event of a war with Russia, attacks internally will be followed by a beachhead in Detroit...
Five-Star Treatment. Whatever Hubert Humphrey still had to learn about becoming a Senator, there was not much for him still to learn about politicking. He briefed his new eight-man staff: every letter was to be answered, every request followed up, a card-index system established to show what action was taken. Minnesota correspondence was to get priority (in one week he got 2,000 letters, tops for any freshman). He had a list prepared of big Minnesota names, who were to get the five-star treatment...