Word: direct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that there were only five Republicans in the state legislature (total seats: 83) and none from Utah in the U.S. Senate or House. Last week Utah's GOPoliticos were sure that the dawn had broken at last. For the first time since the state has had a direct primary (ten years), Republican voters outnumbered Democrats (67,000 to 54,000). They felt that the same ratio would apply in November...
...undue fear of Communism, especially among the delegates from the U.S. In Asia the people we must reach are people who are asking them selves frankly, 'Is Communism the right way for us?', and we must face its challenge not with denunciations but in direct specific terms...
...signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure the people of Berlin will understand." They understood, but not in the way Pieck...
...Potsdam conference where Harry Truman played a minuet on the piano while the Russians (politically) danced a hobnailed kazachok over Europe's face. After some two years of that, the Truman Doctrine ushered in the Cold War, a period of mobilization during which the West pulled back from direct contact with Russia, while organizing (under ERP) its joint defense...
...symphony orchestra, made the classics almost as well known as La Cucaracha. Following his lead, four more orchestras started up in the provinces. Chávez' troubles began when his friend President Miguel Alemán asked him to help set up an Institute of Fine Arts to direct Mexico's music, art and theater...