Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With world headlines screaming the nearest thing to outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...
...heavy, crooked cane, and last week he was up night after night, stumping into the Soviet Foreign Office at all hours, even after Comrade Litvinoff had gone home to bed, to have just one more go at such able Communist diplomats as bald Boris Stomoniakoff, the Vice-Commissar...
...dramatic enough that the Premier of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake-up in Red Army circles, following the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals...
Definitely in jail were White Russia's Commissars (local cabinet ministers) for Agriculture and Education-the former accused of "such treasonable acts as ordering wheat planted in apple orchards"-along with that most distinguished Bolshevik, Comrade Moisel Kalmanovich. He until two months ago was Commissar for State Grain and Livestock Farms for the entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little...
Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, until his demotion last month Vice Commissar for Defense, one of the greatest tacticians of the Red Army...