Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shafer: They got a deal over there, boy. Those union men can go over there and get any BEEP BEEP thing done you want done. They are stronger than BEEP over there...
When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
...American colonies, which on attainment of their independence constituted themselves into a confederacy which ultimately developed into the United States of America," the two nations, though separated by the French Ivory Coast. would join in a United Republic. "As a first step, we have agreed to adopt a union flag and to develop between our two governments the closest contacts . . . especially in the fields of defense and foreign and economic affairs...
Next steps: to draw up a common constitution and to invite other African states (mostly in French West Africa) to join the union, too. As a dowry, Nkrumah promised Guinea a credit of ?10 million. Both Prime Ministers agreed not to pass up any of the advantages their old colonial masters might still offer, with Ghana remaining in the British Commonwealth, and the republic of Guinea seeking ties with the new "French Community...
...Reds could have voted for Larrazábal on the yellow ballot of the leftist U.R.D. (Democratic Republican Union) Party, which also nominated him. But the Communists, who believe they will make an impressive showing in Venezuela's first free election since 1947, wanted their followers to vote on the party's own red-colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race...