Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissar for Heavy Industry he was called "The World's Biggest Businessman." Certainly he was one of J. Stalin's two or three closest friends. The recent trial shifted any blame for the present lagging of Soviet Heavy Industry from Ordzhonikidze to the "Trotskyism" of his Vice-Commissar, Grigoriy Piatakov, who was sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would...
Although Ordzhonikidze had long been famed as Russia's greatest uprooter of bureaucracy and slasher of red tape in Soviet production, the official newsorgans said that whoever succeeded him as Commissar of Heavy Industry will "face the task of uprooting bureaucracy and restoring morale." Observed a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Moscow: "The authorities never permit any suggestions that there might be ineradicable defects in the very system of centralized control of all Soviet industry under 'planned economy' directed by politicians. Any person making such a suggestion would automatically become a 'counter-revolutionary...
...Extradite Trotsky!" Old Bolsheviks taken from the prisoners' dock last week to Ogpu subterranean cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry, after his super-sabotage confession, leaves Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze Commisar for Heavy Industry, vindicated in the Soviet press for Heavy Industry's having fallen behind the Five-Year Plan. Other confessions and executions of the week vindicated virtually all Russia's thousands...
...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (see p. 17): 1) Leonid Petrovich Serebriakov, who from 1919 to 1921 held Stalin's present post, Secretary General of the Communist Party, and in 1929 was president in Manhattan of the Soviet trade monopoly Amtorg Trading Corp.; 2) Grigoriy Piatakov, until recently Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry under one of Stalin's greatest cronies, Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, whose department has made headlines by lagging behind the current Five-Year Plan; 3) Grigoriy Sokolnikov, once Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs and onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...onetime Australian sheepman, who took the Wichman house, ranch and cattle in Kauai in part payment for his ranch. The full price for Hay Creek remained a secret. Under Sheepman Sanderson its flock of 20,000 Rambouillets became the world's finest. For breeding purposes the Soviet Commissar of Agriculture has bought a total of 27,000. Hay Creek Rambouillet sheep are so big that the herders entertain visitors by riding them. Other Hay Creek livestock include 100 blooded horses, 5,000 purebred Herefords...