Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk things over with a select, list of underground leaders. The Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw August uprising, as commander in chief of the London Government's underground army. Some of the 16 hardly deserved the title of "democratic leaders," but they...
Harry Truman's two appointments last week were both handed to old friends: 1) California Democrat Ed Pauley as the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission; and 2) Omaha insurance man Ed McKim as chief administrative assistant (see THE ADMINISTRATION). President Truman's chief adviser on all matters, big & small, continued to be National Chairman Hannegan, the man who put him over for Vice President...
Moscow lifted its blackout of news from Austria. A terse Tass dispatch from Vienna reported: a conference of Austrian political parties had proclaimed a new "Austrian Provisional Government." Chancellor and Foreign Minister was aging (74) Dr. Karl Renner, veteran Social Democrat, head of the Austrian peace delegation in 1919, first Chancellor of the Austrian Republic (1919-20). Thirteen other Cabinet posts were parceled among a coalition of Social Democrats (four), Christian Social (four), Communists (three) and Independents...
Typical questions: What is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Why are American children so badly brought up? What is the U.S. equivalent of Britain's prestigious Crown? Like their predecessors, most of the visitors were struck at the sight of adults eating dry cereal ("horse food,") and drinking milk ("Put some brandy...
...Americans. Author Stewart shows clearly that when Congress and state legislatures took a hand in place-naming they usually gave free rein to the politician's love of rolling syllables (Maine is the only one-syllable state name in the Union). With profound respect for a great democrat, Congress named three tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy - only to find the people of the region stubbornly continuing to call them what they always had: Willow Creek, Big Hole and Stinking Water...