Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overlook the fact," First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the recent 20th Congress of the Communist Party, "that in a number of party and local government organizations women are seldom promoted to leading posts." Last week Khrushchev himself promoted Ekaterina Furtseva to be an alternate member of the Party Presidium (which succeeded the old Politburo), the highest post ever held by a woman in the Soviet Union...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...
...very first session, even their dutiful applause came in for criticism. As First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the other big shots entered by a side door, they were greeted by a noisy standing ovation. Khrushchev strode to the microphone to say, "The Presidium has requested that the delegates not applaud every time we enter. Behave in the Communist way and show you are masters of this congress...
...Kliment Voroshilov, chairman of Russia's Supreme Soviet Presidium, he sent a personal letter marking the 38th Soviet national anniversary. ¶Significantly omitting a laborious presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some...
...proceedings are so stylized that they are sterilized: in the middle of Bulganin's long reading, Khrushchev got to chatting to other members of the Presidium, and Molotov even got up and left the room for a while...