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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore, last week, Comrade Rykov's various duties were declared too much for one man, and he was relieved as Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, i. e., the prime minister of Central Russia, though he still remained Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, i. e., the prime minister of all the Russias. Cergy Ivanovich Syrzow, a close friend of Dictator Stalin, succeeded to the first title. The suggestion was obvious to the most obtuse that further reactionary moves...
...imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during the World War, and Professor P. A. Palchinsky, professor at the Leningrad Mining Institute. Ended the official communiqué: "The death sentences have been carried...
...Manhattan air men last week reported that a Mid-Continent Air Express was being organized to operate between Chicago and New Orleans. They said that President Harris M. Hanshue of Fokker Aircraft Corp. was back of the project; also Chairman James Talbot of Richfield Oil Co., Western Air Express and Fokker. Supposedly Mid-Continent would tie up with Western and Standard Air Lines...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...
...citizens whom President Hoover has constituted a commission to inquire into the law-breaking habits of their fellows, and into the nature of the laws which they break, and into the causes and circumstances of the breakage, headed last week for Washington to receive their instructions. George Woodward Wickersham, chairman, supped and slept at the White House, planning in advance with the President...