Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world brotherhood of peaceful nations, with freedom and justice for all.' Then, two by two, the students, including the young son of a Soviet citizen, stepped forward to repeat the pledge in their native languages. They were: American, Armenian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese, Nicaraguan, Pakistan, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Swedish, Swiss, Syrian, Turkish and Yugoslav...
...clothing and textile stores, 18,000 are owned by Jews. Many of the stores have already been driven into bankruptcy by heavy taxation and government-operated shops which make a point of underselling them. The rest of the Jewish stores will shortly be expropriated, according to Hungarian Economic Boss Zoltan Vas, himself...
...Most Hungarian Jews want to emigrate to Israel, but have been forbidden to do so. Some get out by paying a $750 fee to an underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...
...Pronounced moolah-chag. Hungarian for binge...
Three years ago Hungarian-born Eugene Varga wrote a book which, although violently hostile towards America and Britain, held that there was no likelihood of a depression in the Western countries before 1955. About a year later, the Politburo realized what Varga was saying. He had not only contradicted Marx, but blasted the premises of Soviet foreign policy. Party henchmen went to work (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot...