Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted in my office. If therefore I once behaved correctly, I subsequently shared with them all the antiparty filth...
...demotions] as deserved by me and necessary to the party. I have sincerely confessed my mistakes. I have asked the Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
...might take "15 or 20 years" to do the job. And in the midst of these signs of strain, Red Boss Mao Tse-tung stepped down from the prestigious but not crucial position of head of state, which he has held ever since 1949. He remained as party chairman-the key job in Communist China...
These decisions were made at Wuchang in central China, where every prominent Communist in the nation, save one,* gathered for two weeks of intensive and secret discussion. The news of Mao's stepping down as chairman of the People's Republic of China was confided by the Foreign Ministry to trusted outside diplomats (not invited: the British, the Dutch, the Yugoslavs) after Nationalist China-which says it has an agent inside the party councils-first spread the word. A week passed before China's 650 million-people were told the news...
Died. Anabel Taylor, 78, wife of Myron C. Taylor, retired (1938) board chairman of U.S. Steel, personal envoy to the Vatican of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; in Manhattan...