Word: presidiums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Daughter of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, 77, who went to Russia in 1918 and is now a member of the Soviet Union's top Presidium...
...remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing fines and jail terms up to three years for "parochial" administrators who unpatriotically lag on delivery to other districts...
...Ambassador Joseph Avidar. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians had asked Marshal Voroshilov about Soviet mistreatment of Jews, Khrushchev said, during her recent visit to Moscow's Tchaikovsky festival. Voroshilov denied the charge by saying, "In fact my wife is Jewish." Khrushchev added: "Half the members of the Presidium have Jewish wives." Those who keep track of such matters in the West doubt that even two Presidium members have Jewish wives, but it is a fact that Nikita Khrushchev himself has a Jewish daughter...
...appraising eye expertly judged his station well until last June's showdown fight caught Bulganin too far out between yes and no: he accepted an invitation to chair a Presidium meeting after the Kremlin opposition had objected to Khrushchev's presiding. He has been on the skids ever since. After Khrushchev fought off the Presidium's move to replace him by summoning the whole Central Committee to overrule them, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich were promptly denounced as "antiparty intriguers" and banished to the sticks; Presidium Members Saburov and Pervukhin were set down soon after...
...time at last was up. How had he lasted so long? Likeliest reason: his public demotion last year would have enabled anyone capable of counting on his fingers to conclude that Boss Khrushchev had in fact been voted down last June by a majority of the eleven-man Presidium...