Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police is supplemented by new, lay-staffed people's courts ("daggers in the hands of the people," according to Communist Minister Milovan Djilas*) and by a nationwide network of Soviet-like "people's councils" whose secretaries usually double as local Communist Party secretaries. The councils issue a secret karakteristika (character reference) for each citizen, which is sent on to his superior or employer. The slightest hint of disloyalty toward the Government in the karakteristika is sufficient to bar its subject from getting a job or food. (Recently, a U.S. official living in Belgrade was informed by his maid...
When Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia took the air to explain the Government's decision, eight machine-gunners seized Radio Argentina, cut the wires, and stopped his broadcast there (though not over the rest of the network...
Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling's son, Kirkpatrick, sued his ex-mother-in-law for alienation of affections, two years after his wife divorced him. Mrs. Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
Working in conjunction with the Radcliffe station, WRAD, the Network sends out its programs over the electrical wiring system and cannot be heard except in the buildings which have been especially prepared for this type of broadcasting. In its first year, programs were sent out on the steam heating pipes, but it was found that the waves were going well beyond the legal limit of the station's license, and the electrical wiring method was adopted...
Bilbo, victor in Mississippi's recent Democratic primaries, took a 15-minute verbal hiding from the four Negro leaders, who were allotted radio time by the Mutual Broadcasting system to answer a broadcast he made over the same network...