Word: manageed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had...
Hoping to adjourn by the end of this week, the House nonetheless indulged itself in the political pleasures of a week-long debate on a civil-rights bill that had long since been doomed. The House did manage to work constructively for about two minutes: the time it took to...
Shucking off Stars. For the elder states man of baseball, the fact that the Pirates had become inconvenient to the rest of the league was pleasant news indeed. When Rickey came to town in 1950 -after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew...
As an example of how Stalin's interrogators faked the evidence in the great conspiracy trials of 1937, Khrushchev recited the case of Party Member Rosenblum: "When Rosenblum was arrested, he was subjected to terrible torture during which he was ordered to confess false information concerning himself and other...
Red censorship throttled the Evening Post so effectively that it was soon forced to shut down, sell its equipment at junk prices. The auto agencies next went under. But despite heavy taxes, Starr's insurance business prospered, and the land company, Metropolitan Land Co., was allowed to manage its...