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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, standing before Lenin's portrait, briefed the Party Executive Committee on the new party line from Moscow. British Communists must pep up their policy of gnawing into the trade unions and nagging at the Labor government (which they helped to elect in 1945) for cooperation with the U.S. Pollitt declared war on the Labor Government, which he sneered at as "Right-Wing Social Democracy." British Communists, said Pollitt, must start an organizing drive among trade unions. Their immediate objective was the same as that of French, Italian and U.S. Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Nag & Gnaw | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Besides the line of Jack Carmen, Anderson, and Kittredge, two other lines and three defense duets will see action this afternoon. Following the game, the Yardlings will elect a captain for this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Hockey Squad Meets New Prep Today As Jayvee Quintet Plays Host to Emerson | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

With voting procedures finally determined, balloting will take place tomorrow in all House dining halls to elect the '48 permanent class committee, termed "the most important permanent organization in the University" by Student Council President Edric A. Weld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council, Class Agree on '48 Election Plan | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

Yardlings and commuters of the Class of 1951 cast 774 ballots yesterday to elect eight men to their smoker committee in what John H. Carnahan '50, chairman of the Council Freshman Affairs Committee, termed "the most orderly and efficient election I have seen in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Election Clinches Lively Campaign | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...thought he ought to be able to name his own cabinet, with the exception of the auditor and treasurer. "There is no more reason for the people to elect an attorney general or a secretary of state than there is for them to get the itch." He took a dim view of doing departmental business by commission, board or bureau. "After 14 years of Washington's experience with government by bureaus," said Republican Sigler, "we know it didn't work. Every time you set up a bureau, you get the business of government further away from the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Crummy & Cloistered | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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