Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were wasting their time in endless conferences which brought no results. Sleepy workers were staying on their jobs sometimes 24 hours a day, fearful of showing a "lack of zeal." Said Izvestia: "Real work usually begins after 8 or even 10 p.m. Up to then the People's Commissar himself and the chiefs of department spend their time in uninterrupted bustle, receiving thousands of visitors or talking themselves hoarse in conferences...
Last year Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov, the People's Commissar for Agriculture, was dismissed, eventually shot as a "traitor." He was replaced by Robert In-drikovich Eikhe, who was hailed with press panegyrics as the right man for the right job. Commissar Eikhe was soon after heckled as a "harmer," later "disappeared." His successor in a few months' time was Commissar Volkov, but he too soon lost his job. After that the office went begging for occupants...
...People's Commissariat of Agriculture, told the meeting of the following case: 'Once,' he said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...
Officers of the Leftist Army, to each of whom is attached a "political commissar" as in the Russian Army, appeared in court accompanied by their commissars as witnesses for the State. Officers and commissars testified that in 1937 Poum soldiers on the Huesca front had for some time a "pact of nonaggression'' with the Rightist soldiers facing them, that a Leftist staff officer who "denounced such trafficking with the enemy" was found murdered in a ditch...
Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...