Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynicism of the week much relished by the Montreux diplomats was a British proposal to be allowed to take through the Dardanelles 15,000 additional tons of war boats "for humanitarian purposes." Asked Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff: "What is the meaning of humanitarian...
Died. Georgi Vassilievich Chicherin, 64, onetime Tsarist diplomat, Soviet Russia's first (1918-30) Commissar for Foreign Affairs; of diabetes; in the Kremlin Hospital, Moscow...
...Montreux, only a few miles up the Lake of Geneva from the sparkling new League of Nations buildings, the Conference opened last week with extreme Swiss police precautions against assassination of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, onetime traveling salesman, and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras. onetime male midwife. From London came the 7th Earl Stanhope, product of Eton, Oxford and the Grenadier Guards. He was sent to capitulate to Turkey at Montreux because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week...
...Brien, over the disputed favors of a lady. Only strictly Soviet contribution to this aged Hollywood situation is the prim Communist conclusion in which it is revealed that the girl is beyond the reach of both sailor and soldier, being the heroic wife of a heroic commissar. This curious asceticism need not mar a picture which has probably not been matched for photography since The Informer, has certainly not been equaled for military realism since Chapayev...
...Russian transfusers do not depend entirely upon live blood donors. They have found a way to utilize the blood of corpses (TIME, July 23, 1934). To extend that practice and permit research in other directions, Health Commissar Kaminsky last week allotted $1,900,000 to the Institute for Transfusion of Blood as it celebrated its tenth anniversary...