Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East now has its Cominform...
...sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
Thus fortified, he proceeds to his job of setting Argentina's cultural tone. Minister Ivanissevich (a surgeon by profession, a guitarist and poet by avocation) also heads a secretariat of culture which has inquired in the past year into such matters as anti-religious sentiment in comic strips, the faulty patriotism of newsreels, and the alleged immorality of lyrics to certain popular tangos. Last week Oscar got around...
...through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
...Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left...