Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another 64 Soviet citizens were executed for "Trotskyism" last week. Dispatches passed by the Moscow censor described Joseph Stalin's hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election...
...girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last May they avoided socialites and reporters with equal discrimination, went for long walks in Central Park...
...past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit between the Cathedral and the town-a female psychiatrist belonging to the "generation of blue-stockings who were...
Culturally the South still consists of a large group of small islands. Nowhere is this source of confusion to Northerners better dramatized than in the Cane River country of west central Louisiana, locale of Children of Strangers...
...Central character of Children of Strangers is a beautiful, chaste mulatto girl named Famie. Trouble begins when she spies on a red-headed white camper across the river, is seduced by him, but keeps going back. Her romance ends when the sheriff kills her lover, who is wanted for a Texas hold-up murder. After her redheaded, white baby is born she marries the conscience-stricken cousin who tipped off the sheriff after following her one night. But the child is the only thing she has any thought for. Until he is 13 she is still bathing him like...