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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of Soviet officials have been asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
Uprose in Moscow to settle this point famed Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet prosecutor in countless "Propaganda Trials" (TIME, April 24, 1933 et seq.). Technically it is not Vishinsky, State Public Prosecutor, who interprets the Constitution or the laws, but years of Soviet press, radio and cinema propaganda have made his ominous features spell THE LAW to millions of Russians. "It is perfectly true," declared Vishinsky, that the religious communes are "legally registered societies" within the meaning of Article 56. Nevertheless and without explaining how he arrived at his conclusion, Prosecutor Vishinsky concluded by simply postulating that "only those registered societies...
...policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know whom the Party should favor as a candidate. Izvestia recently described district Communist organizers "perusing...
Last week these professional sparks had ignited a conflagration that threatened to consume the educational branch of Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash city administration. What payless pay days and hunger (TIME, March 7, 1932 et seq.) had failed to do-unite Chicago's warring teachers' organizations-the rankling McCoy and McCahey episodes had accomplished...
...least of Myron Taylor's changes in Big Steel came unexpectedly last spring when he made his peace with John L. Lewis, a step regarded by many steelmasters as heresy of the first order (TIME, March 15 et seq.). Reports last week that Myron Taylor had stepped out of office because of such criticism received little credence. Actually Myron Taylor, having taken the chairmanship with the utmost reluctance in the first place, has long wanted to retire. Resumption of Big Steel common stock dividends makes an opportune moment. And four years' training has well groomed Ed Stettinius...