Word: bolsheviks
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...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
...several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference of opinion and one serious argument: Trotsky left Lenin for the Mensheviki (moderates), but during the Revolution became a Bolshevik again. Says he of Lenin: "He was my master. This does not mean that I repeated his words and gestures a bit late, but that I learned from him to arrive independently at the same conclusion...
...fact that today he is playing first is not so much a summing-up of the man as it is of this transitional period of political backsliding in the country." Lenin, says Trotsky, never liked nor trusted Stalin, but of Trotsky he said-"There has been no better Bolshevik...
...radical activity in the United States does offer a threat to domestic tranquillity which requires careful attention, it does not follow that any price, no matter how high, should be paid to remove this danger. Political freedom is no empty trinket to exchange for peace of mind over the Bolshevik bogey. The tactics of the New York City police in recent handling of the communist problem indicate no inclination to stop short of thorough supression and persecution. When New York industrialists apply to the police for information to enable them to throw communist employees out of work the scene takes...
...Waldemar Eitingon and one Sol Schild, the Eitingons, descendants of potent fur traders for three generations, dominate the company. Before the War the Eitingons operated in Leipzig, New York and Moscow. The centre of their trading operations was Moscow Fur Trading Co., headed by Motty Eitingon. Imprisoned by the Bolshevik Government, Trader Eitingon escaped and reached New York in 1919, became president of Eitingon Schild...