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...because he is the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky, is the name of lean, neat-bearded, introspective Comrade Leo Kamenev, onetime Chairman (Speaker) of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Soviet Congress). In 1927 Comrade Kamenev, like his friend Zinoviev, was kicked out of the Party, repented, was reinstated. Last week Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (né Radomyslski) were each 49. They were charged not with having written, printed, distributed or inspired the anti-Stalin manifesto but merely with having known of its existence without immediately reporting it to the Dictator...
...prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician, one to be envied by many another less sure of his bread & butter...
Last week the All-Russian Communist Union of Youth which recently numbered seven million members proudly announced, as the result of its annual spring Chistka (cleaning), the kicking out of the League of more than one million youths "some because of deviation from the party line, but most because of laziness or inefficiency...
...Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are composers comfortable now on any U. S. concert program. But along with them Stokowski introduced two strangers: Serge Nikiforowitsch Wassilenko and A. S. Illiashenko...
...Explanation. The extent of Red short sales was definitely established when the House committee investigating Communism questioned E. Y. Belitzky, vice president of the all-Russian textile syndicate, and the three New York grain brokers to whom he gave his selling orders. Comrade Belitzky revealed that he received by trans-Atlantic telephone instructions from Chlebtorg, Hamburg agency of the Russian grain trust, to sell 7,765,000 bu. of wheat in Chicago. According to this witness, Russia had the wheat to sell abroad but, pending delivery, decided to use the Chicago market to hedge the sale as a form...