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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia during the Revolution and has written: "While the faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY." Lenin in the hottest days for Reds had skipped out of Petrograd (now Leningrad) to the safety of Finland...
Today when Soviet newsorgans mention Trotsky they never do so except in hysterically abusive terms which flatly contradict the facts of 1917. It is now Stalin who in those days of do or die largely made the Revolution, though the Dictator with becoming modesty calls himself "only the disciple of Lenin...
...Trotsky Must Die!" Stalin in 1929 decreed the expulsion of Trotsky from Russia to Turkey, where Trotsky arrived loudly protesting. Declared Volkswille, the official organ of the German Communist Party then: "Trotsky must die, but Stalin does not dare to get rid of him in Russia. . . . Therefore Trotsky is to be taken to Turkey, where it will be easy to murder...
...Sakel cure is complicated, difficult and dangerous because the patient must almost die of insulin shock several times before he can collect and use his wits like a normal human being. Dr. Sakel applies his treatment in four stages. For two weeks or so, according to the patient's reaction, he administers increasingly large hypodermic doses of insulin. When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma for several hours a day for several days. This...
...State Legislature authorize jury service by women under the same qualifications as men. The council held the practice would improve the calibre of petit juries. Feminist drives for jury rights in New York State began 15 years ago, but each time the Legislature allowed bills broadening the statutes to die in committee. In 1931 Bar Association groups fought the proposal, said lawyers had "difficulty in talking to women jurors." New Jersey has permitted mixed juries since 1921, advertised the fact when four women sat on the jury which heard the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Last week in Newark...