Word: andrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman of the Soviet of the Union: Andrey A. Andreyev...
...Catholic or "Uniat" Church, in communion with Rome but using its own form of Mass. Poland's Ukrainians are about equally divided between the Orthodox and Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead he makes phono graph records of his pronouncements, ships them throughout the Ukraine...
Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...
...shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...
Last week Stalin spoke his mind to young Andrey A. Andreyev who made such a name as Russia's ablest industrial "troubleshooter" two years ago that the Dictator promoted him to be Commissar for Land Transport. Result was another decree, aimed chiefly at Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited...