Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty Los Angeles Times. Fearing a Knight-Knowland battle that could wreck California Republicanism, Chandler sent Goodie three urgent pleas to get out of the gubernatorial race, at the same time promised him support for the Senate. The first came about a month ago. The last was delivered in person by Chandler's wife Buff. Said she last week: "Goodie and I are old friends. I told him I felt he couldn't win. If that influenced him, I don't know, although I heard that it did." It did-because behind Buff Chandler lay the potential...
...week of ominous silence, the Central Committee delivered its verdict in the ritualistic phrases of Communist inquisition: "Comrade Zhukov has violated the Leninist party principles . . . pursued a policy of abolishing the leadership and control of the party over the army and navy . . . proved to be a politically unsound person, inclined toward adventurism...
...cult of Comrade Zhukov's personality was cultivated in the Soviet army with his personal participation. With the help of sycophants and flatterers his person and his role in the Great Patriotic War were overglorified...
...Person of the Emperor. "This is the day," the little Emperor told his subjects soon afterward, "of fulfillment of the gracious pledge so often reiterated by us, that our beloved people are to share in the responsibility of the public affairs of our government." Facing him in the parliamentary chamber were 210 representatives of the people, victors in the first election ever held in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history of autocratic rule...
...legislators stood respectfully before their seats as the Emperor spoke, for Haile Selassie's newly promulgated constitution made one point inescapably clear: "By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by the anointing which He has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred. His dignity is inviolable and His Powers indisputable...