Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...
...Room Service and Brother Rat, both produced and directed by Abbott, are in their Second seasons on Broadway...
...trapsed home in a healthy, sentimental mood, however, for they were given the opportunity just before the 600 to pay tribute to William C. Prout, Knights of Columbus brother, who instituted the first K. of C. Meet. Lights were dimmed, and the audience was asked to rise in their seats and stand in silence for a full minute. The silence was prolonged, however, by difficulty with the amplifier switchboard which delayed "The Star Spangled Banner" from starting until well on into the minute...
Ralph Kiefer, Brother of Adolph Kiefer, world's fastest backstroker, will swim the dorsal event, and will also swim the backstroke in the 150-yard medley relay...
...ordinary Wikker standards, the other brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters...