Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Chief of Police of Salonika, Gresco, scene of the crime, George Polk "was killed by the Communists to defame Greece in U.S. eyes and end American financial assistance to that nation...
...promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
...educators and architects have long been agreed on at least one point: the nation needs new schools. But, said ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week, "it is a sad-and little recognized-fact that the pitifully inadequate supply of taxpayer's dollars is, in most big U.S. cities, being spent for the wrong kind of schools." To show what it meant, the FORUM devoted its entire October issue to the U.S. school...
...Communist union weeklies have sometimes printed labor news that sounded as if it were right from the party line. They had little choice. The top labor news service, supplying 200 of the nation's 800 labor papers, was the pink-hued Federated Press. But last week a rival agency, with financial backing from several big A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions, was well under way in Washington. The new, non-political Labor Press Association had already signed up 193 clients, including such important papers as the C.I.O. News, the Machinist and the I.L.G.W.U.'s Justice...
...testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers from their plain wives and set them at each others' throats...