Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bohlen has made Russia his special field ever since he entered the Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov, when the secret agreement on Manchuria was finally worked out. He subsequently became Counselor...
...Washington last week, a federal court jury decided that Eastern Air Lines must pay $65,000 for the deaths of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Miller, who were among the 55 (including Cartoonist Helen Hokinson) killed in a 1949 crash over National Airport. Claims against Eastern growing out of this accident may total $15 million; the Miller case is the first of these to be decided. The Bolivian government refused to accept legal responsibility for Bolivian Pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, whose plane rammed the airliner...
From behind the Iron Curtain last week came fragmentary but reliable news of how the subject peoples of Eastern Europe reacted to Stalin's death. In the big cities of Rumania, Hungary and Poland, many celebrated the event by covertly hoisting a few drinks. In Budapest the Reds herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among...
Hockey coaches approved a plan to standardize elegibility requirements of Eastern teams for the NCAA tournament at their annual meeting yesterday...
...interesting to see some Republicans still blaming all the woes of the world on Yalta. Ever since the abortive resolution "blaming" Roosevelt and Truman for the plight of Eastern Europe, Senators who know something about foreign policy have realized that the "Yalta sellout" is nothing but campaign ballyhoo. Regrettably, other Senators, without the time or interest to learn the facts, have accepted the political slogan as gospel. It is a case of infatuation with one's own campaign oratory...