Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Bergson, who visited the Soviet Union this summer for the third time, in order to get some idea of the present economic state, observes that the diet and clothing of the workers are still very poor. A good suit, he points out, costs 1500 rubles, but the average worker makes only 800 rubles a month, the equivalent...
...days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
...Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this, in the thirties "when jobs were hard to get," Mrs. Fainsod did volunteer work. She has also served as state president of the League of Women Voters for two years...
...formed group of professional opera performers has inaugurated its second season with a production of Puccini's Tosca. Sarah Caldwell's troupe, which uses the slightly militaristic name of "Operation Opera," has moved from the small and incommodious Fine Arts Theatre to the large but equally incommodious Loew's State movie house, now the property of the Catholic Church and newly dubbed the Donnely Memorial...
West German officials in Bonn said the Soviet protest was against a legislative proposal by the government to set up national radio and television networks in competition with state-operated hookups...