Word: matriarchate
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...holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...
...King. Rumania's Communist matriarch, grey, unkempt Ana Pauker, demanded "peoples' courts to judge those who have betrayed the interests of the people . . . dissolution of Maniu's party and arrest of all its traitorous leaders...
...still manages to turn in a competent job. Joseph Cotten as the Hollywood style congressman no paunch and Charles Bickford as a highly fictional butler, contribute to the general rewarding effect. Honors for the evening, however, must go to Ethel Barrymore who, in the role of the political matriarch, gives the impression that she could clean up Boston polities or reform the Republican party without breaking into much of a sweat...
Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...