Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand of 185,000 who eagerly carry out their orders to the hilt and then some are the 185,000 bullyboys of the Reich?the Schutzstaffel, the vicious elite of the Nazi storm troops. Their organ, and that of the Gestapo (secret police) is Das Schwarze Korps. This Party paper recently stated it as a fact that international Jewry had declared war on Germany...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda, under changed editorial direction, was explaining that the League's former leaders had been indifferent toward the welfare of good Young Communists but had protected "inveterate drunkards," "double-dealers," even those who were "morally corrupt." The net of this seemed to be that the exuberant Youth paper had taken a little too enthusiastically the Dictator's plump for World Revolution two weeks before. With Unifier Zhdanov on the job, the Party press and the Government propaganda agency will get a better idea of what each other...
...diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper blamed "inefficient organization...
...September a dapper State House politico and ex-tire salesman named Wallace Edwards suddenly announced he was publisher of the Times. But not until last week did another power behind the paper emerge from a woodpile of rumor and conjecture: Tennessee's Senator-reject George Leonard Berry, who got his start in a newspaper pressroom...
...written for those who like to play games. Tall, dark, 38-year-old Ignazio Silone, whose two novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) have been called the sum total of modern Italian literature, has had intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...