Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communist side," summed up "Anonymous Spokesman" Dulles, "I would think very hard before I went ahead on the face of this statement." He also offered the diplomatic carrot: if the Reds would renounce force, the U.S. was willing to continue efforts to negotiate a Formosan cease-fire (the subject of 54 of the 73 Geneva sessions), would consider Peking's claims, "however ill-founded as we may deem them...
Democrat Brown became a popular luncheon speaker on the subject. "Why I Left the Republican Party," made hundreds of new friends, joined every organization he could find (including the National Lawyers Guild, which he joined and quit in the 1930s, rejoined and quit again in the 1940s, when he finally discovered that it toed the Communist line. He ran for San Francisco County district attorney in 1939, lost, went out and made more friends, joined more clubs, ran again in 1943-and was elected...
...powers" were the city's seven most influential ministers, their average age 50, their average congregation 2,800. Most of them were privately for integration but justified their public silence on the subject on the ground that their duty was to hold the church together. The rest were "passives"-older men who favor integration but have a prudent eye cocked on retirement. Their specialty, said Psychologist Pettigrew, was praying for guidance, which is "how to say something without being heard...
Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of language, but as Author Jacobs points out, they "often appear on poor paper with narrow margins, and, what is worse, in German." This book, fortunately, is wide margined, well written and in witty English...
Moorehead leaves his subject with a grim picture: the murder of the Czar and his family. The Bolsheviks later executed five responsible for the massacre, establishing a tradition-elimination of witnesses-that would cost many of the Reds their own lives. Concludes Moorehead: 'The wheel had now turned almost full cycle from [Czar] Nicholas to Lenin, from autocracy back to autocracy again . . . Bread and Peace' had been at the heart of the party's program from the beginning. What Russia was now about to receive was famine and civil...