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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Career: Started in 1926 as a G.O.P. campaign worker, moved on to serve in the New York assembly, became Nassau County's sheriff, went to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939 to serve until this year. As a Congressman, he introduced few bills, made few speeches, concentrated on hard, effective committee work. From 1947 through last year, he was chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He managed to stay out of the bitter nomination battle .between Taft and Eisenhower, bustled around the convention hall in Chicago wearing one of those buttons proclaiming: "I like everybody." When...
After twelve hours in Bonn, Cohn proved that he was indeed a fast worker...
...Kremlin. The biggest plum of all went to Molotov. In 1930, at the age of 40, he became Premier. His acceptance speech: "I received my schooling under the direct guidance of ... Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today, I had to work mainly as a party worker. I declare to you, comrades, that I am going to work in the government also as a party worker, as the agent of the party's will...
...peace rumors set off price breaks in both stocks and commodities, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker shrilled: "Wall Street shivers with fear at the news of possible peace in Korea." Actually, no news is more bearish for the market than war itself, as the Korean war demonstrated in 1950, when it knocked down stock indexes as much as 26 points (TIME July...
Siqueiros' latest mural, painted in the rounded corner of a new hospital, is more explicit: an injured worker under the rays of a health-giving sun. Siqueiros' effects are sometimes not much subtler than a punch in the eye. But as long as exico's artists can keep delivering such knockouts, the Mexican government is likely to keep right on paying for them...