Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Square, side streets languished under a layer of slush which kept traffic to a minimum, as the City of Cambridge concentrated its snow removal equipment on Massachusetts Avenue and the Central Square area. "God put it there and God will take it away," said Councilman Mickey Sullivan once more...
...Only Unanimous Thing. . . ." But encased among the Molotov allegations that day had been the pregnant phrase "a central democratic all-German government." The others appeared to pay no attention, at first. But next morning, studying the transcripts, U.S. and British delegates realized that the phrase could not be ignored. Molotov was talking straight to German nationalism and the grandstand of German public opinion, while Communist fellow travelers in the U.S. were accusing Washington of bidding for German favor...
Marshall had resolved to stay out of a propaganda contest with the Russians, yet Marshall answered: "We . . . sincerely desire to see a democratic government established in Germany at the earliest possible moment." Said Bevin: "It is the desire of the British government that at the earliest possible opportunity a central government should be established. But . . . how is it to be elected? What powers is it to have...
...State of Insurrection." Earlier the Cocos had been riding high. Comrade Benoit Frachon, kingpin of the C.G.T., had formed a National Central Strike Committee representing 20 striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with...
Whose Destination? We arrive at a village. There is a fair, and the Reds are holding a propaganda meeting. Actors play on the stage; each scene is against the Central government. . . . Two young men jump up and point their revolvers at our chests. After one hour of inquisition we are free to go. But before we have gone far we are ordered back. . . . We try to explain that the road is very bad and we will not reach our destination. "Not your, but our, destination is important," says a hard-looking young man who is sitting on a bed, almost...