Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directed against all "cultural deviationists" from Clown Karandash to Producer Sergei Eisenstein. He also signed (for the party, with Stalin signing for the Government) the highly significant agricultural decree aimed against the mass, illegal reconversion of collective farms into private holdings. To emphasize the importance of Zhdanov's twin tasks Stalin, ailing at Sochi on the Black Sea, let Zhdanov have the place of honor on Lenin's tomb (see cut) at the Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 revolution. (A typical and revealing excerpt from Zhdanov's speech the night before: "It is precisely those remnants...
Outpost of Empire. Victor, Joseph (his twin) and Bernard Ridder thereby added a new outpost to a little-known, $15,000,000 empire that already stretched from coast to coast. Its founder was astute Herman Ridder, who started the Catholic News 60 years ago, bought Manhattan's Staats-Zeitung in 1890 and died in 1915, leaving to his sons the delicate job of steering a German-language paper through the storms of anti-German feeling in World...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...York City's oldest and most famed churches was busy last week lengthening its cords and strengthening its stakes. Only a block and a half from the twin towers of 100-year-old St. George's on once-fashionable Stuyvesant Square, an 18-block housing development was abuilding. This project and others nearby might mean a tripling of St. George's 3,453 membership, a proportionate expansion of its extensive community activities. The challenge fitted St. George's tradition and was welcome...
Under the gauze of London's blue-grey November mist, the Portland stone buildings of Whitehall, the delicate tracery of trees in Parliament Square, the twin towers of Westminster Abbey all melted together to form a silver backdrop. Fresh sand strewn along the procession route made a golden carpet...