Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day she wrote: "Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday would probably irritate Stalin even more than he is already exasperated with the United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...political power. One of its clawing rivals for leadership was William Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League, the party's labor decoy. He was born in Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
...Christoffel married Ann Sabljak. Under Dennis' direction, Christoffel engineered a seizure of the State C.I.O. Council. With the help of a goon squad, Christoffel seized and dominated Allis-Chalmers' C.I.O. auto workers' union. In 1941 Dennis' work paid off. It was the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, when...
...After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped to his feet, Roosevelt states, and sternly exclaimed that this was no joking matter." American scientists had done a great job in winning the war...now we must develop atomic energy for peace." Then he raised his glass. "Here's to Professor Conant...
...Stalin Prizes went to a 41-year-old Russian newspaper woman named Vera Fedorovna Panova for her first novel, a story of a Red army hospital train in World War II. Published in the U.S., The Train proves to be exceptional in recent Soviet fiction for sticking to its own tracks, with no side excursions into politics and only the rarest toots of the propaganda whistle...