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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Into Voznesensky's job as chief planner went his assistant, Maxim Zakharovich Saburov, who had been hauled up from obscurity two years ago, appointed a Deputy Prime Minister. At the same time Ivan T. Golyakov was relieved of his duties as President of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: More Temblors | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Tap Day at the Kremlin | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Power-Seeking. In the old days at the University of Minnesota, his favorite instructor, Ervon M. Kirkpatrick, once quoted to him a useful maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." Power-seeking Hubert Humphrey first had to force a showdown within his own sprawling party. For months, Humphrey lieutenants stumped the state, lining up delegates to fight the Wallaceites and Communists in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ranks (Humphrey broke with Wallace after Wallace's pro-Soviet speech at Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Total Push | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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