Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped demagogic, anti-capitalist Count Rüdiger von der Goltz from the post of Commissar of Economy to which he was appointed last July with impossible hopes that Count Rüdiger would make the Fatherland self-sufficient, "a pure autarchy...
...kick was most considerate. The Realmleader, while dismissing Herr Feder as Commissar for Homesteading and Undersecretary of Economics, granted him a handsome pension for life...
Last week a U. S. correspondent brought home an interview with U. S. S. R.'s handsome, crisp Assistant Commissar of Finance R. J. Levin. It would have been utterly incomprehensible to anyone who holds to the world-wide fallacy that Soviet Russia now practices Communism. Clearly and repeatedly Josef Stalin has said that he is "building Socialism," hopes some day to start building Communism. Communism, the ultimate objective, is a pure, lofty idea: "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Socialism is merely "the union of agriculture with socialist industry . . . such as will...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, a swarthy, hot-eyed Georgian who is married to an Eskimo, and plump U. S. Woman Novelist Ursula Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss) agreed last week that Russians are growing more cleanly. The Commissar was quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture...
Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors...