Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema. Pensive Anatoly Lunacharsky, onetime Commissar of Education, wrote and his once beauteous wife acted in a thoroughly sentimental, Mid-Victorian confection now delighting All the Russias...
...patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced slightly at the too terrific blaring of the Red Army band which had burst into Turkey's national anthem: Istiklal Marsi (March of Independence).* In a Rolls-Royce the Turks were driven between two miles of cheering, flag-waving Muscovites to their lodgings in the ornate palace...
Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...
...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...news from "Europe's Largest Motor Car Factory," the $119,000,000 "Molotov Works" recently built near old Nizhnii Novgorod by the Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, caused Dictator Stalin to rush out to this luckless plant last week the Commissar for Heavy Industry himself, Comrade Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin's best and closest friends...