Word: presidiums
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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...
...anniversary speeches in Moscow (see above) were far overshadowed, in importance and revealing detail, by an other speech - made last August. The speech was delivered by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson got the text last week, and found in it the best report in years on how it is with Russia...
Demobilization of Russia's huge Red Army (estimated V-Day total: 12,000,000) began in earnest last week. By order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, soldiers and noncommissioned officers in ten age groups and hundreds of thousands of specialists will be released from duty by year...
...their own way, and in their own interest, the U.S. and Britain were as jealous of Big Power prerogatives as Russia was. But they went about it differently. Not a presidium but a U.S. institution, the smoke-filled room, preserved Big Power unity. San Francisco's smoky room was the parlor of Stettinius' suite atop the Fairmont Hotel, where the Big Power representatives were in almost daily session...