Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avel Yenukidze, former secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, intimate collaborator with Nikolai Lenin, generally regarded as having been Stalin's "political mentor" after Lenin's death, long an intimate family friend not only of Stalin but of his second wife, Alliluieva, who as a child had been dandled on Yenukidze's knee...
...Larin, former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
Under the bill a central organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid...
...their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...