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In the post-Wilson era, the Senators slowly discovered that despite the loss of their secure base in the state legislatures, they still had a political base that was independent of the President. A Committee of the Republican Senate all but destroyed the Harding Cabinet with a relatively new weapon...
One national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary. During the war, while Ana Pauker hid safely in Moscow, Dej and his associates organized anti-fascist resistance or else languished in the cells of various Rumanian prisons. By 1952...
Died. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 76, leading Russian poetess for three generations; after a long illness; in Moscow. Bitterly denounced during a Stalinist purge of 1946 as a decadent "half nun and half prostitute," she nevertheless wrote such finely chiseled, romantic and often mystical verse on love and faith that the...
Nor is the dialogue especially scintillating. Omar Sharif reads aloud a newspaper headline: "The Czar's in prison, Lenin's in Moscow, civil war has broken out!" Ralph Richardson, on learning that the police have been knocking at his door, exclaims: "Oh no! Not another purge?"
For two reasons, however, hopes that the Republicans may be able to escape the race are illusory. First, bigots are as likely to be found wearing business suits as white sheets. The party may be able to purge Klansmen and Birchites from its rolls, but that is no guarantee that...