Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understanding has been arrived at between Great Britain and France as to what program they are prepared to sponsor jointly at the next session of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Committee, which has never yet taken any decisive action...
...nine years out of Yale College, has worked with The Yale University Press and Bobbs-Merrill Co., was National Squash champion in 1922. The latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday Page and Co., was head of Hearst's International Library at the age of 27. Their publishing program includes a juvenile department headed by the daughter of picturesque Dr. Mabel Ulrich, Minnesota physician, college lecturer on sex, and successful bookshop proprietor. The young publishers' big catch is a volume of Thornton Wilder's drama collected over a period of twelve years. The final sheets were sent...
...visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these good works was to be generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts...
...preserving strictest order was Comrade Nikolai Bukharin. Today he is right-hand henchman to Dictator of Soviet Russia Josef Stalin, many of whose speeches he is believed to write. Pounding for order in parliamentary fashion, Chairman Bukharin announced the following agenda of subjects for discussion: 1) Reiteration of the program of world revolution. 2) Encouragement of Communism in nationalist China and India. 3) Defensive measures against the wars being planned by Capitalism. 4) Encouragement of revolt movements in all colonies held by imperialistic powers. 5) Inspection of the condition of the All-Union Communist party of the Soviet Union...
...comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin-more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious." . . . Rugged Dictator Josef Stalin and facile Propagandist Nikolai Bukharin are striving and succeeding with a program of discrediting Trotsky in Russia. Every book or newspaper article concerning him is censored, suppressed or distorted. New textbooks of Soviet history have appeared in which the great name of Trotsky and his creation of the Red Army is barely mentioned. With mighty Russia in the absolute grip...