Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enough. In The Bronx, a sign hanging in a closed cleaning and pressing shop read:
In Soviet Russia's hierarchy, the tightest concentration of naked power in the world, a short, fat man from the southern Ural steppes named Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov now stands just a level below the eminences where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov stand. He seems, in fact, to be pressing...
As precisely as an Eliot rhyme clicking into place at the end of a line, 4 o'clock each day brings tea with friends or business acquaintances in Eliot's rather shabby, faded office, where he is enthroned on a rickety wooden chair behind a massive desk. At...
Others were working towards much the same goal by somewhat different paths: ex-marine Cord Meyer Jr., whose United World Federalists was designed to transform the U.N. itself into a world government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet...
Herman W. Steinkraus, Connecticut manufacturer (Bridgeport Brass Co.) and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going...