Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That party, celebrating a major achievement of the Five-Year Plan, took place three years ago (TIME, May 12, 1930). Last year Big Bill was made a Vice-Commissar of Railways. His U. S. past and the "Bill" by which everyone called him was glossed over in official statements mentioning that he had really been born in Russia, that his real name contained no "Bill" but is Vladimir Sergeyevich Shatov. "We'll show the world," cried Vice-Com-missar Shatov, "what railway-building...
...last week Comrade Shatov was supposed to be Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...
Sure that it knew best how to manage German business, one of the first steps of the Hitler Government was to poke into hundreds of the Fatherland's leading industries a Nazi busybody called a "commissar...
Next day this definition was signed all over again in a special regional pact between Russia, Turkey and the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia). By many London observers Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, sponsor of the nonaggression treaties, was thought to loom as a new leader in Eastern Europe, the champion of the "Little Entente" and Poland against possible German aggression. In Warsaw, where every Pole hates & fears Adolf Hitler, relieved Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck exclaimed: "This is a most important political act - a great step toward organization of world peace!" Farsighted Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov...
...first time in 16 years a U. S. President formally admitted the existence of a nation of 160,000,000 inhabitants when last May Franklin Roosevelt included U. S. S. R. in his world-circling appeal for peace. For the first time in 16 years a Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs did business as an equal with U. S. statesmen when last month Maxim Maximovich Litvinov met Assistant Secretary of State Moley at the London Economic Conference. For the first time in 16 years U. S. trade with Russia was officially promoted when last fortnight Reconstruction Finance Corp. made some...