Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economic Base established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country with slogans reading: "Life is getting better! Life is getting merrier!" Last week the Soviet official chiefly responsible for fulfilling the current plan, Commissar of Light Industry I. E. Lubimov, got sore...
...result of workers' truancy this quarter's planned production of Soviet textiles is 49,000,000 metres behind the Plan, according to irate Commissar Lubimov; flax textiles are 27,000,000 metres behind; and Russia is without 800,000 planned pairs of socks & stockings...
...Moscow, as an outspoken friend of the Soviet Union and a onetime husband of the widow of its U. S. Hero John Reed, Ambassador Bullitt quickly became the most favored of capitalist envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial...
Five minutes later, accompanied by Exchange President Charles R. Gay, the man the Red flag honored arrived in the private gallery of the Exchange: Soviet Russia's Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky, escorting Soviet People's Commissar for Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan. Capitalists never had a more implacable enemy than Commissar Mikoyan. He is a genuine, bomb-throwing Old Bolshevik, who, with the final Soviet victory, rose to high Communist rank in the Caucasus. Last week he politely drew out President Gay on operations of the Exchange, was surprised to be told that...
Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...