Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
...European Recovery Program. For the 40 million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
...Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week there was the feel of the sea. As yachtsmen crowded into the 1948 National Motor Boat Show, they were "piped aboard" by the cheery notes of a boatswain's whistle. There was another cheery note: in the cheaper price class there were more boats than ever. Some prices were down from last year's, though most were...
Meanwhile, other officers reported that two suspects are "under observation" and that six sets of fingerprints had been discovered on the getaway car abandoned in Central Square less than a mile away from the scene of the daring 850,000 theft...