Word: press
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
...which he dwelt smugly on Russia's possession of the atomic bomb. After the boss's speech, the carnival ended in a burst of fireworks, followed by glowing reports from the party treasury that the Florence carnival had boosted the total sum collected for the Communist press beyond 300 million lire (slightly less than half a million dollars...
...sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought to be punished as such. Abdullah told the convention: "We want to tell the whole world that Kashmir has decided, whatever difficulties may arise, we will always be with India...
...past two years the regime has increasingly used such totalitarian practices as police torture and terrorization of the independent press. Dissident officeholders have been purged. Such opposition leaders as Radicals Ernesto Sammartino and Agustin Rodriguez Araya have been forced into exile (TIME...
...Copyright 1949 by Oxford University Press...