Word: pact
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...naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1942. For ten years he had been a municipal employee in New York City. Then, last December, he admitted he had been a member of the Communist Party from 1936 until 1939. He was expelled, he said, when he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact. The Municipal Civil Service Commission fired him. Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer concluded that "it is a bit difficult to visualize how [Pinggera] in his official capacity can give aid to his country's enemies," ordered him reinstated in his old job: washroom attendant...
CI.O. and A.F.L. staffers have drawn up a no-raiding pact for their top men to sign. In the last two years, the two unions have appealed to NLRB 1,246 jurisdictional disputes, involving 366,470 workers. By the time their organizational, legal and other expenses were paid, the unions figured that every member captured in a raid cost a whopping...
Died. Nicholai Radescu, 77, exiled former Prime Minister of Rumania; in New York City. Freed from a Nazi prison, General Radescu signed the 1944 pact switching Rumania from the Axis to the Allies, headed the first (and last) democratic, postLiberation government, was ousted after a bloodily successful Communist-led uprising in March 1945, narrowly escaped assassination and came to the U.S., where he formed a Free Rumanian committee to work for his country's liberation...
...Pact sufficient to insure defense of the region...
...Locarno. The West should be prepared to offer Moscow assurances against attack from a united and rearmed Germany. He harked back to the 1925 Locarno Pact-"the highest point that we reached between the wars." Locarno, explained Churchill, "was based upon the remarkable provision that if Germany attacked France we would stand with the French, and that if France attacked Germany we would stand with the Germans...