Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LITVINOV: This is relevant. Who is to judge what is in the interest of socialism and what is not? Is it perhaps the prosecutor, who spoke with admiration, almost with tenderness, of those who beat us up and insulted us? This is what I find ominous. Evidently it is such people who are supposed to know what is socialism and what is counterrevolution. This is what I find terrible, and that is why I went to Red Square. That is what I have fought against and what I shall continue by all lawful methods known to me to fight against...
...Macaroni Factory. The current crisis has its origins in the chaotic conditions that prevailed in France after World War II. In 1949, Jean Prouvost, a press baron (Paris-Match, Paris-Soir) as well as France's largest woolens manufacturer, purchased a controlling interest in Figaro. But because he had served briefly in the collaborationist Vichy regime, both Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave...
...entitled to run their newspaper as they see fit, which includes the right to fire an editor-in-chief. We are living in a capitalist society, are we not?" To which the head of Figaro's journalists' association heatedly replies: "A newspaper is an enterprise of public interest, not a macaroni factory...
...course, Giro is not offering all the services of a bank, such as paying interest on deposits or making individual loans. Nor is it willing to emulate the gentlemanly tradition of British banks by honoring clients' overdrafts. If a Giro customer overdraws, his check is returned...
...depth of your questions seem to indicate an interest beyond that of just finding...