Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chess Game. To remedy all this, Mao and his colleagues brusquely ordered local Communist cadres "to tidy up the people's communes" before mid-April, when Red China's 1959 economic plan must be approved by the nation's pseudo-parliament. To acquire the additional activists desperately needed to tighten up government control over the communes, the Chinese Communist Party has recruited an estimated 1,000,000 new members in the last five months. Mao has also thrown into the communes army units of up to division strength to lend a hand with plowing, irrigation projects, training...
Stroessner thought the power balance through, and on the day that Congress reconvened last week, he put on a civilian suit, rode in an open blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable, democratic regime." He said the government would introduce bills to lift the state of siege, proclaim a general political amnesty, lift restrictions on freedom of expression, adopt a new constitution...
...long months of tolerance, the House Patronage Committee grew weary of the lowly paper-folder on the House office staff (salary: $4,000 a year) who had been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
...good as the Houghton Library at Harvard, and it's not as good as the Yale collection. We come right after Yale." Says Yale's Rare Book Curator Herman W. Liebert of Randall's library: "First rank-one of the outstanding in the nation...
...international bent, a slipping circulation of 155,205 (down 20,356 in five years), and an annual deficit of $1,000,000. Last week, edited as though the world began at San Francisco Bay and ended at the Golden Gate, the Chronicle was proudly-and accurately-calling itself the nation's fastest-growing major daily both in ads and circulation...