Word: plowman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Publisher Lottinville, onetime Rhodes scholar, speaks with authority. For 20 years, he has run his bustling, 40-man shop in the shadow of an oil derrick. Yet Oklahoma is known for more than oil. Over the years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers...
...desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which confirmed Rumania's paltry Communist minority in power. In December 1947 Groza bounced young King Michael off the throne and into exile...
...accustomed to women reporters, says Ruth, but "I remember once, on a farm-implement story, when my source seemed a little baffled to see a girl on a plowman's errand." However, after the story appeared there came a nice note from the baffled source...
...implanted in Europe a common heritage of religion, law, art, science and leisure. Even in the dark days of the 14th century, as the hoped-for synthesis was fast collapsing, Christian Europe threw up its greatest religious poets-Dante and William Langland, the poor London clerk who wrote Piers Plowman.* Both of them, says Dawson, although on different levels, wrote, convinced "that the world had gone astray...
...might be expected, the bureaucrats were falling all over each other in the scramble for power. The Interstate Commerce Commission, for one, was battling the Commerce Department over who should control transportation. Meanwhile Defense Secretary Louis Johnson set up his own traffic organization, headed by Vice President Edward G. Plowman, of the U.S. Steel Corp. of Delaware to control the transportation of military personnel and defense equipment...