A Central Executive Committee is a governing body with executive power of various parties, governments, or private organizations:
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in 1922–1938
- Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan
- Central Executive Committee of People's Action Party, ruling party in Singapore
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Romanian Front, Black See Fleet, and Odessa Oblast, known better as Rumcherod
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Sibiria, known better as Centrosibir
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“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)