Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the press reports of his first trial had been of "such unprecedented volume and in some respects of such extraordinary virulence," said Hiss, he thought there was no chance of getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper...
For an uncomfortable 90 minutes, officials of Hawaii's seven struck stevedoring companies insisted that "no settlement has been reached." But finally they got together and grumpily confirmed what they considered to be Bridges' rudely premature revelation. The I.L.W.U. and the stevedoring firms had come to terms on...
Josip Tito added his authoritative opinion last week to those who think the Kremlin has a secret method of extracting confessions from its victims. In a speech to the Yugoslav army, Tito said that Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been taken to Moscow after his arrest...
The meeting was expected to last two days. Actually, it was over in six hours. "It was found," wrote one Washington newsman, reporting a phenomenon rare in international councils today, "that areas of disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting...
Last week in Prague the Communists began the biggest purge since they seized power in February 1948. Squads of security police roamed the streets; thousands of persons were sent to uranium mines and forced labor camps. The main targets seemed to be businessmen, but a new stigma was strongly in...