Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain to the U. S. In January 1917 he landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada for a month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky...
...week, in an official Vatican communiqué to the World press, these points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free State...
...greatest Secretary of a Treasury on the Globe is not a male but a female, not Andrew William Mellon, not Philip Snowden, but Mme Vera Yakovleva who last week was appointed Commissar of Finance to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Obscure, like nearly all the new crop of henchmen and henchwomen with whom Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin is gradually filling the Russian Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...