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...Milja persuaded Todor to give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja...
...Spanish Main" meant the mainland of North and South America controlled by Spain. Eventually it came to be associated with "not only the central and crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad...
...lends a businessman $10,000, it merely credits his checking account with $10,000. This increases the bank's deposits (i. e. liabilities) by $10,000, and its assets are equally increased by the businessman's note. Writing checks on the new $10,000 account does not destroy the credit that has been created, for the people who receive the checks will redeposit them. And the credit remains outstanding until the loan is paid...
...Communists, who mortally hate the A. F. of L.'s leadership as a parcel of boss grafters and labor racketeers, have long waited for the rent which would destroy the Federation's whole factional fabric. Last week no major rent appeared but there was a significant...
...workers and peasants who achieved the great Socialist Revolution dreamed of creating an army which would stand like an impassable wall," explained Pravda. "The Red Army today is such a power that it not only is capable of defeating any invader but can destroy a hostile army on its own soil...