Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change? Washington's best guess was that Novikov was needed else where, and that it didn't much matter who was the Kremlin's office boy in Washington. Novikov speaks good Arabic. He was Minister in Cairo during the war, and he got behind the scenes in the Arab states. With the Arab hive buzzing over Palestine the Kremlin might well have a new job for Novikov...
...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...
...secretariat, as a routine matter, sends transcripts of addresses to the speakers for correction. In the past several weeks the Russian delegation has been going through these verbatim reports with great care. Wherever a Soviet speaker has made a slip of the tongue and referred to "President Truman," the thoroughgoing Russians change it to just "Truman...
...later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but the Lords could still block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory benches came a growl of fury. "A deliberate act of Socialist aggression," muttered Winston Churchill. (But he grinned when Attlee began quoting what Churchill, as a member of the Liberal Government...
...Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...