Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the disastrous collapse of Samuel Insulls financial empire in 1932, Washington has viewed bank holding companies with suspicion but done little to curb their power. Last week the Senate and the House passed and sent to President Eisenhower a bill that would apply stringent curbs. Directed at the...
The Last Ten Days (Cosmopolfilm; Columbia) is perhaps the best picture produced in Central Europe since the war. Made in Austria, it was flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair...
Fradd has the longest record of service in the Department, having begun his duties here in 1919. He is the originator of the "step-test," a five-minute physical test each freshman takes upon entrance. During the Second World War, Fradd directed a program of Army and Navy units here...
No satellite leader tried harder to please his Soviet masters than Bulgaria's Premier Vulko ("Wolf") Chervenkov. When Stalin denounced Tito, Moscow-trained Chervenkov denounced Tito. He personally directed the trial of Traicho Kostov, who was hanged in 1949 as a "Titoist spy." Chervenkov made Bulgaria into the most...
Leaked to the world press and foreign diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly...