Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no other name printed on the ballots which the chairman, could have read, but according to Pravda each time he read out "COMRADE STALIN!" all present went wild in a fresh ovation...
...result is 100 per cent-100 per cent!" exulted Pravda. "What election in what country for what candidate has given a 100-per cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that...
...candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...
...makes the rather likely assumption that the votes "invalidated in other ways" were spoiled by other recusant voters and divides the total by two, the result is 1,667,000 Russians who still have the courage to oppose Mr. Stalin. Among more than 90,000,000 voters this is a small number. Also small is the number of Mr. Stalin's chief supporters, the 2,000,000 (estimated) enrolled members of the Communist Party...
...years since then, Field's has been completely reforged in the crucible of McKinsey theory. It is once more substantially in the black. But the process involved as ruthless a purge as anyone short of Stalin has ever produced and Field's employes have found their jobs both less serene and less secure. Last week, however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company...