Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everywhere-mostly Russians, but Tartars too, Uzbeks, Little Russians, White Russians, Tadjiks, Chinese students and a group of Communist literati from New York, just arrived but exulting with the boldest. Thus last week Moscow staged one of the largest, most impressive demonstrations in Soviet history, as her second, epochal Counter-Revolutionary Trial began (TIME...
...most complex of all: We Demand the Supreme Punishment for Counter-Revolutionaries and the Order of Lenin (highest Soviet decoration) for the Ogpu! (secret police...
...festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...
Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign contributions. Any premature conclusion that counterrevolution pays well was nipped by Prisoner Professor Alexander S. Fedotov: "As I sat in prison and thought of my vanished hopes, I told myself that had our plans succeeded it would have been foreign imperialists and a handful of rich emigres who would have...
Greenwich, Conn, home, or in his Pasadena colonial house, or aboard his yachts Zatna and Sialia. Chicagoans remember when he became a partner in D. A. Tyng & Co., Chicago over-the-counter house. They also remember how that firm ended in a flurry of indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still...