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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strong had done to get this stunning blow. It might be that the party line, which she had followed faithfully for so long, had left her behind somewhere in one of its sudden sharp turns. She might have swallowed her own propaganda, in which she had frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime of devoted service. Her fate might or might...
Soviet QSL postcards, often printed in English, are government-made and attractively illustrated with monuments, public buildings, various war medals, and propagandistic puffs for Russian greats. A popular model carries a likeness of Alexander Popov (1859-1905), hailed by the Russians as the "inventor of radio...
...various trusts permitted Textron to take out assets, replace them with others of less value. Example: Rayon Foundation Trust let Textron take $200,000 worth of stock, paying 10% dividends, replace it with stock paying 5% or less. The trustees also sold stock to friends and associates, at less than the trust had paid for them...
...treatment of cerebral palsy is a long, expensive process, calling for a whole battery of specialists. Great progress has been made recently by private clinics and such researchers as Dr. Winthrop M. Phelps, director of the famed Children's Rehabilitation Institute in Cockeysville, Md. Various state legislatures have also appropriated funds. But facilities and trained personnel are so short that only about 10% of the cerebral palsied get the necessary kind of training and care...
...wanders into the hills and is murdered by partisans. Since the British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...