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...both edited an illegal sheet called Pravda, thereafter was Stalin's ever-loyal lieutenant until his death. Elected a Polit buro alternate in 1921, aged 31, the youngest ever. Premier 1930 to 1941 Minister 1939 to 1949. Uninspired, but crafty and stubborn negotiator. Irritated underlings call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file clerk in Russia." Behind every plodding step however, lies a record of a difficult task efficiently performed. Is the last of the Old Bolsheviks, the revolutionmakers, left in the innermost circle. Married to a Jewess (who has U.S. relatives...
Herbert Brownell, once an aspirant to a career in journalism, knows how to organize good political reporting. Before the precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...
Only eight days after giving birth to the maverick Young Democrats, three of the rump officers have resigned their posts...
Governor Paul A. Dever has apparently won himself some converts as a result of the Lampoon-Democratic rump club "kidnapping" incident of last Friday...
...rump session, the Currey forces elected Henry S. Leigler '55 as president. Thomas D. Edwards '53 vice-president, and William R. Wister, Jr. '55 secretary. They retained Currey as treasurer...