Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placards which the Moscow crowds were about to shoulder in the Red Square, shouting exultation that Karl Radek was to be put to death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland was too despicable, too foul, to be put adequately into words by even the most picturesque proletarian...
...position, all the more delicate because every Soviet official knows that he was constantly in and out of the houses of the prisoners who last week confessed a plot to kill Stalin. But Why Do They Confess? The first quoting interview ever given by J. Stalin to a foreign journalist was obtained by Eugene Lyons, manager of the United Press Moscow Bureau for many years (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Now resident in the U. S. and writing widely...
...There have been instances when . . . the victim's children were tortured before his eyes-a more terrible ordeal for the father than any that could be inflicted on his own body."Eugene Lyons is a thoroughly professional journalist, but Isaac Don Levine is an avowed, outspoken partisan of Trotsky against Stalin...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...
...Baubles. His one & only novel, The Tragic Hunt, appeared in 33 installments, was so complicated that most readers lost the thread of the plot. He signed his stuff by many a pseudonym, usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily, read some of Chekhov...