Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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4) That the Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian...
Old Bolsheviks now executed. Said she: "When they arrest someone in Russia, he's sure to be guilty, for in the Soviet Union they always investigate carefully beforehand." She heard a Czech Communist ask venerable Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President, "Was the Red Army weakened by the execution of...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924 and the expulsion of Trotsky, Stalin has driven and scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes...
Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of...