Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something important was going on in Russia. This was all that the world could be sure of. The news itself was in two deadpan paragraphs on the back page of the Soviet papers, under the heading "Chronicle." The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had "released the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., Comrade V.M. Molotov, from the duties of Minister of Foreign Affairs." It had appointed Andrei Vishinsky as Foreign Minister. Also, it had released the Deputy Chairman etc., A. I. Mikoyan, from the post of Minister of Foreign Trade and appointed in his stead...
...Communist: Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State Without Portfolio and Secretary of the Cabinet, who has the last word on foreign affairs; Hilary Minc, Minister of Industry; Colonel Roman Zambrowski, vice director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the six-man Presidium of the National Council; and Wladislaw Gomulka, Secretary General of the Polish Communist Party...
...Left to right: Marshal S. M. Budenny; Colonel General K. A. Vershinin; Marshal I. S. Konev; Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff; Marshal L. A. Govorov; N. A. Bulganin, Deputy War Minister; Zhdanov; N. A. Voznesensky, Chairman of State Planning Commission; N. M. Shvernik, Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; G. M. Popov, Party Secretary; A. N. Kosygin, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers; M. F. Shkiryatov, Member of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; N. S. Patolichev, Party Secretary; A. V. Khrulev, Vice Minister of Armed Forces; A. A. Kuznetsov, Party Secretary...
Nominations for the presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
Seventy-one-year-old Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin resigned as President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet after 27 years in office. From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...