Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union leaders threatened to call a general strike for March 1, the day Kekkonen becomes President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...
...KARL A. MENNINGER...
...noon Benson stepped from his official Cadillac outside the Senate Office Building, tugged grimly on his broad-brimmed hat, and hurried to keep a luncheon date with three Republican Farm Belt Senators: Minnesota's Edward Thye, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and North Dakota's Milton Young. A few days earlier, in a preliminary Agriculture Committee vote, all three had sided with an eight-to-seven majority for restoring farm supports pegged rigidly at 90% of parity. This invitation to new surpluses was patently ridiculous, because the committee had also voted for the Administration's soil...
...Karl Marx, who in spirit presided over this period, is introduced in a characteristically oblique Powell way. He makes his appearance over a ouija board (planchette in Britain) at a seance conducted by Myra Erdleigh, a figure like T. S. Eliot's "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante," said to be "the wisest woman in Europe." She warns of the planchette: "The things it writes cause such a lot of bad feeling sometimes." The board says that "Karl is not pleased" and, ominously, "Force is the midwife."* Thus the bewhiskered ghost of Marx sets Jenkins' friends whirling about...
History, Government and Economics professors disagreed last night--although not violently--about the significance of Nikita S. Khrushchev's revision of Karl Marx's thinking. Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics, called the whole affair "downright un-Russian" while Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, said that Khruschev's remarks "mark the logical culmination of recent tendencies in Soviet thinking...