Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble, crowed critics of nationalization, was that Bata's managers were picked for their politics, not for their business experience. They pointed to Ivan Holy, 34-year-old general manager of Bata, who got his job chiefly because he was Communist representative of Zlin in the Czech Parliament. His only previous shoemaking experience was as manager of exports to Turkey for Bata during the war. But his Communist connections came in handy in wangling materials and machines from countries dominated by Russia. And Holy was smart enough to surround himself with old Bata employes...
...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
Lady Astor's 27-year-old son John, standing for Parliament as his mother had, tried a different approach. "I do not intend to bring drink or morals into politics," said...
Last week Morínigo, no striking apostle of liberty, promised that Paraguay, the only nation in the Hemisphere without a parliament, would elect one within the year. He also promised that political parties-perhaps even his enemies, the Liberals-might organize. Press restrictions also would be relaxed, to a degree. Already concentration camps were on the decline...
After 16 days in court, the bloom was off little Fred Rose. At the start of his conspiracy trial in Montreal, Canada's only Communist member of Parliament had been jaunty. The defense sneered at documentary evidence produced by Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy cipher clerk, who named Rose as a "recruiting agent" for a Russian spy ring, as "ridiculous." But the Crown produced some 50 witnesses, 175 exhibits and about 30,000 words of testimony a day to prove that Fred Rose had, indeed, sold out his country. The jury verdict: guilty. Once jailed for sedition...