Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when contracts are finally signed the Met has little time to plan its season properly. But for all its mutterings about the iron hand of labor and the burden of its big payroll, the Met management itself had not done all it might to simplify its staging, by using unit sets instead of cumbersome pieces that take 80 men to get in place...
...Connecticut, graduated from Vassar (1930) and had taken an M.A. degree at Columbia. In 1933 she went to Italy, where she was revolted by what she saw of Fascism. On her return, she said, she was "easy prey" for the Commies. She joined the party's Columbia University Unit...
...Gasperi's government was implicated in Pallante's stupid crime. In a message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped by 50,000 (to 2,200,000) in the past year...
...years ago as a law student in Poland, there had joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
...being so honest with each other McKelway and Buchanan raised a clear-cut issue that had the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild in a dither of soul-searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...