Word: secretaryship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's rubber-stamp loyalty to superiors brought him the nomination of Stalin's heirs, after Stalin's death, for the party's first secretaryship. Khrushchev's mastery of the party regional machinery enabled him to build the personal power that ousted Stalin's heirs: Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, even the Red army's authentic hero Marshal Zhukov. But Khrushchev's elemental knowledge of the people told him that the Soviet's rising technology needed some freedom from terror, and he set a new course of demote, not destroy...
Conscience of Freedom. To the secretaryship Foster Dulles brought all the years of family tradition, the skills of a long diplomatic apprenticeship, the craftsmanship of a topflight international lawyer-and an unswerving faith in his mission. Thus uniquely endowed, he held the free world's battle lines with his display of peace by military-diplomatic power ("Brinksmanship," cried the critics), took his stand as the clear, stern conscience of freedom (TIME, April...
...Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates early this year resigned his $22,000 secretaryship, effective June 1. But Ike persuaded him to stay in Washington as Deputy Secretary. Said Gates: "It plays hob with my personal plans, but I guess it is my duty...
...RICHER FOR POORER is 100% British and tells of the cold, calculating efforts of Rose Answell to push her unambitious husband Ian up and up in the Tory government. From a minor secretaryship in Agriculture ("He loved the Pig Scheme and he never had to make a speech") gentle Ian is thrust up the Rose-rigged ladder to the very verge of Minister of State for Colonial Affairs-where, abruptly, he rebels, resigns, retires to pig-farming and smashes his marriage. Author Gellhorn is working here in rather tired soil...
...Trotskyist and rightist peasant deviations. Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that Khrushchev's foreign policy was too adventuresome, and his opportunistic farm policy would breed a new crop of rich kulaks.* Some Communist sources say that Khrushchev was at one point voted out of his party secretaryship by a combination of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, Bulganin and Voroshilov. Other sources say that he stalled any formal vote and insisted that he could legally be removed only by the full 130-odd-man Central Committee. In the Central Committee, Zhukov showed that he was backing Khrushchev, and everyone else...