Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director of Plant No. 22, Russia's most important aviation factory...
...manager's secretary blenched. The shopper was indeed Daniel G. Sulimov, since 1930 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, comprising nine-tenths of the Soviet Union. Before becoming the equivalent of Pre- mier of an area two and one-half times as big as the U. S., he had headed the Soviet commission inspecting U. S. railways, had been Vice Commissar of Transportation. When the manager of Store 134 came cringing into view, Premier Sulimov roared, "Do you call this soap?" and hurled the handful on the floor...
Impressed reporters have called Vice Commissar Karakhan the "cleverest living Asiatic." An Armenian with Turkish forebears, he was educated in Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north...
...thing: unalterable opposition to the sale of Russia's section of the Chinese Eastern Railroad to Japan. Because the Soviet dares at this point risk no open break with Japan, Steel Man Stalin was firmly prepared to sacrifice both his railroad and his Vice Commissar...
Ivan Maisky, short and stocky Ambassador in London of the Soviet Union, made the speech taunting the Capitalist World which his chief, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, was too smart to let any Russian make until he personally had negotiated an imposing series of non-aggression pacts in the lobbies of the Conference (TIME, July 17). Last week Comrade Litvinov was sipping the waters of a famed spa, when Comrade Maisky rose to shout: "The results of this Conference are something less than zero! . . . The only lesson we have learned is that a profound organic disease is eating away...