Word: kalinin
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...Stalin is Dictator by virtue of his office as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Russia, finds it convenient to let Molotov be Premier and Kalinin President, as these offices are completely dwarfed by his power...
...stand there with J. Stalin during a popular review are always his prime favorites of the moment. Next, the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin, was last week pinned on the barrel-chest of Comrade Litvinoff by Stalin's frontman, twinkly-eyed old Russian President Mikhail Kalinin...
...enough for eager spectators that the whole boxful had been lumped together the day before by Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph...
...refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Finally she went to Russia, rode on a propaganda train with Kalinin, talked to Lenin, listened to Trotsky. Going home that time, second class, was an anticlimax: "Hungry gluttonous people fell upon the good food wolfishly. The ship swiftly split up into the goods and the bads. The bads had a good time and the goods talked about them...
...Moscow, Warsaw and Prague there will be further consultations between the Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom, France and Italy at Stresa. ... I raise my glass to the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of this great country, to the President of the All-Union Central Executive Committee [Comrade Kalinin, puppet 'Soviet President'] and, Monsieur Litvinoff, to your very good health...