Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, January 13. -- Cries that recent airplane crashes are making the American people "afraid to fly" and demands for investigation were voiced in Congress today on the eve of a Senate Committee's scheduled broad examination of commercial aviation...
...illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage and their following...
...brief sober pause midway between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 358 delegates at the Chicago Conference sweated and politicked through a smoke-filled parliamentary maze. They knew what they wanted: no axe-grinding by existing youth organizations, no partisan domination by doctrinaire minorities, escape from the shadow of past failures in building a U. S. Students movement...
Secretary of State Byrnes had promised to help Germans win their way back to a decent place among the nations. In the guise of a small Christmas gift, the U.S. again acted on his promise. On Christmas Eve, in Frankfurt's icy-cold Römerberg Square, where once German emperors were crowned, General Joseph T. McNarney, European Theater Commander, announced an amnesty for 800,000 "lesser" Nazis. Purpose: to "encourage those who come under its terms to seek the ways of democracy...
Controversial Amendment. "The Christmas Eve session began with a deceptive, commencement-like air. White-mustached, bell-voiced Wong Wen-yu, Minister of Economics, presided. Delegates busily brushed autographs, bade farewells, talked about the long trips home. The Constitution's second reading rippled toward a finish. Then up for reconsideration came a controversial amendment to Article...