Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discipline for the Dissidents. Not for the Vishinskys and the Gromykos but for the policymakers is the great problem that now faces the party: how to consolidate the Communist empire in the face of "Titoism." Perhaps Molotov and Mikoyan have been assigned to working out the political and economic arrangements under which the national Communist Parties can be made to work in harness. It was easy when only Russia had an army and a secret police; but now the party faces potential "Titoism" throughout eastern Europe and-especially-in China...
...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...
...three experts concurred in the belief that the American housing problem if left unchecked could have world-wide reverberations...
...platform with Epstein were Walter Firey, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, and John R. Badgley 3G, a student in Architecture. The trio viewed the housing problem from their respective fields...
...housing problem has been creeping up on the country ever since 1929, Epstein stated. Although some housing legislation passed as early as 1935, it was shaped mainly to provide employment. "It was not until 1942 that legislation for housing's sake alone was passed." Epstein added that "the problem has attained such epidemic proportions that we are not completely certain housing needs can ever be filled...