Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the Commissar for War, famed Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, supposed to have been hand-picked by Stalin, issued to the excited Red Army this adroit but cautious order...
...first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia...
Died. Sir Sidney Low, 76, famed British historian, father-in-law of Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs; ? of heart failure caused by asthma; in London...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
From his Moscow desk Commissar Andreev ordered Red railwaymen throughout the Union to "stop writing uselessly long reports," announced that Red railway executives will hereafter devote at least one third of their time to outdoor railway work. He decreed that within five days 25% of all railway office workers must be transferred to "permanent manual field work": cleaning locomotives, sweeping platforms, greasing cars, working switches...