Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
Soon after three of the five commanding officers of the Abraham Lincoln-George Washington outfit reached safety in the Leftist rear. Of these Mr. Fred Keller, a former choir boy, elevator boy, newspaper reporter and amateur boxer, who is a political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before...
Wollersdorf:. Josef Bürckel, the burly Nazi commissar sent by Berlin to Vienna to put on the plebiscite campaign, last week had barracks at Wöllersdorf-which was used as a prison camp for opponents of Dollfuss and later Schuschnigg-soaked with gasoline and set afire. While thousands gaped and the flames roared skyward with such intense heat that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that...
...fresh crop of achievements by Soviet North Pole scientists (TIME, Feb. 28), but the Dictator was not handing out any more hugs & kisses. Instead, at Moscow it was Death which all important officials of the Soviet North Sea Route Administration faced, as the Soviet Council of People's Commissars ordered them investigated for "treason," "wrecking." Professor Schmidt, often called by Moscow papers "the Commissar of Ice," was not identified by name as Arctic Wrecker No.1 last week, but he was fairly started on the downward slide-by Big New Bolshevik Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior...
...going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort. In Soviet papers it was said that Rome papers were printing pictures of "Butenko" which did not resemble him in the least and Soviet papers printed his true...