Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In two weeks, more than 10,000 middle-class Czechs had been summarily arrested. Their crime was their failure to "find a positive relationship with our people's democratic order."
Also among those jailed were 40 more Roman Catholic priests (estimated total of nuns and priests already jailed: 300); they had opposed two bills, steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion...
With scarcely more than a quiet sigh, Canton last week passed under Communist rule. There was no resistance in the city that had given refuge to China's dying Nationalist government.
Most Hated. For his kind of peace, Laureano was prepared to fight with the government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other...
Buck Duke; who died in 1925, had thought of just about everything. Counting subsequent Duke endowment funds (and previous family gifts to Trinity), the Duke benefactions amounted, in time, to more than $50 million. The only thing that money couldn't buy overnight was a solid academic reputation.