Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report on the fate of 650,000 Jews who survived in the satellite countries was released last week by the Jewish Labor Committee, a welfare group composed chiefly of American labor-union leaders. Excerpts...
...intelligent attack" must be made on these problems, he said, "if we are to escape the fate which almost engulfed physics." Bridgman referred to how indefinite terminology seriously bogged down science in the last century. If modern man becomes precise in his definitions of vague words like "democracy," he argued, then difficulties over values may disappear...
...frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime of devoted service. Her fate might or might not be a lesson to other willing tools of the larger Communist "truth...
Life with Daisy had its ups & downs, and on a Mardi Gras day just 30 years ago, Daisy threatened Satchmo with a razor as he stood at the corner of Liberty and Perdido Streets in full Zulu court regalia. Louis had had enough. He took a job playing with Fate Marable's band on the Mississippi River excursion boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such...
Last week was the 300th anniversary of a dramatic and still controversial event, the execution of King Charles I. To mark the occasion, many speeches were made and articles written which drew a wide variety of lessons from the monarch's unhappy fate. Some held it up as a warning against socialism; others as a horrible example of what happens when conservatism thwarts the popular will. It remained, however, for famed Communist Biologist J. B. S. Haldane to produce the most memorable statement on the beheading of King Charles. In the course of a 1,200-word article...