Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Ambassador Steinhardt from the moment he arrived in October 1948. Until then, many Canadians had always thought of the U.S. embassy as a rest home for weary U.S. diplomats or a testing ground for fledglings. Steinhardt fitted neither pattern. He was a successful Wall Street lawyer, a heavy contributor to Democratic campaigns, whom Franklin Roosevelt first rewarded with the ministry to Sweden. No mere fat cat, hard-driving Laurence Steinhardt immersed himself in his job, soon became a virtual career ambassador in one hot spot after another...
Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...