Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Ramsay MacDonald would have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...each of the 16 popped up in the box and cried: "I admit the charge against myself." Asked Prosecutor Vishinsky: "Did you, Zinoviev, organize the Terrorists?" "Yes." "Did you plot the death of Kirov?"- "Yes." "Did you organize the plan to kill Stalin?" "Yes. I am guilty of every charge in the indictment." A few minutes later two other prisoners became tangled in argument with each other as both were rapidly confessing. A third prisoner named Bakayev, a bearded figure in a khaki blouse, arose and loudly interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said...
Prisoner Fritz David, said to be a German, confessed that at the 1935 Comintern Congress he sat in a box clutching in his pocket a pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism...
...paces at Dayton was a third variation on the Seversky amphibian. A low-wing monoplane with two seats, it is a slower model of the pursuit plane, built husky to withstand the beating Army trainers must take. By stepping up the motor, adding two panels to the multi-box wing, it can readily be converted into the speedy pursuit ship, suitable...
...wrestlers are vaguely divided into regional groups. Each group recognizes as world champion its own champion who, for box-office reasons, usually prefers not to wrestle rival champions. Currently, there are six claimants to the title besides Levin: Rudy Dusek, Danno O'Mahoney, Everett Marshall. Leo Daniel Boone Sav age, Ali Baba, Jack Sherry...