Word: grigorevich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deputies met to receive the first Soviet budget drawn up since the Commissariat of Finance was "purged"' last March. New Finance Commissar Arsenii Grigorevich Zverev made a budget speech declaring that it is the Soviet Union's "duty to protect . . . the interests and culture of the working masses everywhere." For this big job, he announced, Russia has adequate funds. The Deputies cheered for many minutes after Commissar Zverev climaxed: "We stand for Peace, but we are ready to give blow for blow! If need be, the whole people stands behind the army and the Communist Party...
...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...only in a Minsk paper called the Worker could one read last week the BIG STORY of how a three-day session of the White Russian Communist Party, devoted to frenzied charges and countercharges, had been capped by the sudden death of the White Russian President, Comrade Alexander Grigorevich Chervyakov. The Worker described President Chervyakov's demise as "suicide for personal family reasons," but it led up to this by describing how President Chervyakov had been publicly reviled for "letting Fascist termites devour the Party house in Minsk." Apparently the reason why the Worker was able to scoop this...
...this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...