Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wishing to displease Josef Stalin, not a single foreign correspondent turned up in Leningrad last week to try to cover the trial of the assassin of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Two thousand Red Army troops, their greatcoats nearly sweeping the ground, guarded historic Smolny Institute. There Red Boss Kirov of Leningrad was shot in his Party headquarters, and there last week Assassin Nicolaev was tried in blackest secrecy...
Some sort of name simply had to be produced in the third week of capriciously shooting batches of Russians in oriental vengeance for the murder of Josef Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). With the Russian people clamoring to know why a Communist shot a Communist, they were put off by this resolution of the Moscow Party bureau: "The abominable cunning agents of the class enemies, the coward scum of the former Zinoviev anti-Party group, have torn Comrade Kirov from our ranks. We will stamp out every one of the vile counter-revolutionary followers...
...steel-nerved Stalin for once has been badly scared, his executions of "pure terror'' and continued arrests were understandable last week. Down in Kiev, ancient, church-jammed Mother Town of All The Russias, star chamber trials continued under famed Judge Ulrich. Meanwhile Comrade Nicolaev, the assassin of "Dear Friend Sergei," remained alive awaiting trial...
...practical politicians who nest in the U. S. Capitol feel beyond their depth in the economic theories of the New Deal, but the ancient game of trading votes is something near & dear to their hearts. Last week the unofficial but altogether real business of choosing a new Speaker of the House to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey gave them a chance fairly to wallow in their favorite pastime...
Genuinely embarrassed, the Generalissimo sent 10,000 soldiers boiling after the murderers last week. And in Paterson, N. J. Mr. Stam's brother Jacob said: "We know we will see our dear ones in Heaven, and while there are tears there is an undercurrent of joy, because we know the way of the Lord. They were worthy to be in His service and they were worthy to die a martyr's death...