Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provincias Unidas had already been closed; the Communist Hora was barred from the mails. Passengers on incoming planes were being relieved of their copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
...move: it crossed Italy's war debt (about $1 billion) off the books. Italy's frozen accounts in the U.S. will be thawed, her merchant ships returned. Italians were grateful for the agreement, negotiated by able Ivan Matteo Lombardo, an industrialist who became Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. But with the skepticism of a long-suffering nation, many wondered what the U.S. would ask in return...
...Communist, not a Socialist...
When the singsong voice stopped, after one hour and 15 minutes, Attlee (whom Churchill once called "a sheep in sheep's clothing") had convinced few Britons that his Socialist Government was ready resolutely to make up for past mistakes. Attlee "touches nothing," said the Economist acidly, "that he does not dehydrate...
Died. Frances Violet Stewart Thomas, 66, tall, gracious wife of Socialist Norman Thomas, who spent most of her time raising five children and prizewinning cocker spaniels and who once ran a tearoom; of a heart attack; in Cold Spring Harbor...