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Thorez, Maurice (sh) and taker (iou)


Thorez, Maurice (sh)




born April 28, 1900, Noyelles-Godault, France
died July 11, 1964, at sea en route to Yalta

French communist politician.

He began working as a coal miner at age 12. He joined the French Communist Party งใ 1920 and was arrested several times for agitation. After becoming local party secretary (1923), he rose to secretary-General of the party (1930). He served in the Chamber of Deputies (1932-39, 1945-60) and helped form the Popular Front government in 1936. He lived in the Soviet Union (1943-44), then returned to France and served as a minister of state (1945) and deputy premier (1946, 1947). He remained a dedicated Stalinist even after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin in 1956.


taker (iou)



taker noun. ME.
[from TAKE verb + -ER1.]
A person who takes something; spec. (a) rare a person who takes another into his or her protection; (b) arch. a person who captures or apprehends another; a captor; (c) = PURVEYOR 3; (d) (now rare or obsolete) a robber, a thief, a pilferer; a plagiarist; (e) a person who takes a bet; a person who accepts an offer, suggestion, etc. ME.
A thing which takes something. Formerly spec. in pl., nippers, claws. rare. E17.
Comb.: taker-in (a) a person who takes someone or something in; spec. a deceiver; (b) an apparatus or mechanism which takes in or receives something; taker-off (a) a person who takes someone or something off; spec. a mimic; (b) an apparatus or mechanism which takes something off; taker-up a person who or thing which takes up someone or something; spec. (a) a person who takes another under his or her protection, a patron, a guardian; (b) (now rare) a purchaser or purveyor of Commodities; (c) rare a receiver of money paid; (d) rare a person who takes possession of an estate.