Word: ironhandedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solvency & Syllables. With stability finally assured, Hawaii's vigorous culture sank new roots. In the New Deal days came the rise of unionism and of Red-lining Harry Bridges, who won control of Hawaii's longshoremen, pineapple and sugar workers. Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges'...
Shukri el Kuwatly, independent Syria's first President-and President again now-did not long survive Syria's humiliating performance against the Israelis in 1948. (Syria's one claim to military distinction was the capture of a small hill 48 hours after the armistice.) In March 1949...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might...
Maroc-Presse, started in 1949 by Mine-Owner Jacques Walter, was not founded as a crusading newspaper, but to cash in on Morocco's postwar boom. In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin. But...
In the days before Stalin's death, only six non-Communist newsmen worked and lived in Moscow. Others could not get permanent visas or, even if they could, decided that ironhanded Russian censorship made working in Moscow almost useless. By last week, with the Communists stepping up their "peace...