Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were not placed on the green tables last week any pieces of paper stated to be from the hand of Trotsky. There were just charges and confessions in matching pairs. Confessions. Radek last week confessed that he helped assassinate in Leningrad two years ago Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), adding: "We decided to kill enough leaders from Stalin down to bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind...
...make him speak and behave for some hours afterward as hypnotically required by Justice, was cautiously mentioned, the writer being still employed in Moscow. Without resorting to the hy- pothesis of such "confession gas,"Mr. Lyons mentions that the use of hostages (wives, children or others dear to the prisoners) is an old Soviet custom, and moreover that in Moscow the authorities have now had 20 full years in which to perfect their "third degree methods, familiar enough in all police systems"to "an extreme of refined cruelty...
Considering that Stalin claims to believe that Trotsky successfully fomented the assassination of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), and then hatched a conspiracy which had the death of Stalin as its objective (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), it was curious last week that official Moscow and the Party and press in Russia were indifferent to the honors President Cardenas was paying to Mexico's guest. Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed...
...Henrietta Garrett did leave, however, a scribbled "request" to the manager of her investments, Charles S. Starr, who had increased the $6,000,000 left by Walter Garrett to $17,000,000 in 1930. Since then the estate has been fattened further. The note the widow left said: "Dear Mr. Charles S. Starr-Give you my estate and belongings which are named in my book per a/c the following amounts: Give to Henrietta G. Ferguson the sum of $10,000. . . ." Thus she gave away $62,500 to friends and servants, but omitted the residuary phrase: "All the rest I give...
...Dear David Mannes...