Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down and give up his revolutionary activities. She is said to have died in Russia some time in the late '30s. The second wife, Herta, whom Tito married in 1939, was taken prisoner four years later by Yugoslavia's pro-Nazi quisling government. Tito, head of the Partisan government in the mountains, bailed her out by trading eleven Nazi prisoners for her freedom. They were divorced...
Marriage Revealed. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 60, Premier of Yugoslavia; and Jovanka Budisavljevic, 28, former partisan fighter, now a major in the Yugoslav army; he for the third time, she for the first; in Belgrade (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Only one professor could rightly be termed a non-partisan observer at both. He was Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government. But he too seemed to have more allegiance with the Democrats. At their convention, he was a Sergeant of arms on the floor...
...This non-partisan group, formed only to perpetuate local reform under the city managercity council system of administration, held a majority of the nine man council...
Brown made the first move, a point of order to throw out the case on the grounds that the National Committee had not heard it. The Chairman, who had been selected by a partisan majority, agreed instantly, which precipitated a lusty debate. Massachusetts' John Heselton, Brown's counterpart in the Committee's pro-Eisenhower conclave, moved to overule the Chair. Washington's Eastvold declared loudly that he thought it ridiculous for the steamroller to crush one single delegate. Brown winched, rose in protest, and moved adjournment estensibly to allow Committee members their evening victuals. Again, the Chair readily granted...