Word: kamenev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zinoviev & Kamenev, Still a Big Red to many an ignorant British voter is bullnecked, tousle-haired Gregory Zinoviev. In 1924 the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" helped to wreck James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet. Addressed to the British Foreign Office, it contained "instructions" from Comrade Zinoviev. thus giving Scot MacDonald's foes a chance to tell British voters that his Government was "not taking orders from Moscow...
Among the scientists, headed by fierce-mustached Professor Rudolph Samoilovitch of Leningrad, are two from the U. S.: Lincoln Ellsworth and Lieut.-Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard. There was a plan to halt the Graf over Kamenev Island in Northern Land Archipelago, lower an inflatable boat or a basket and take aboard Professor Urvantzov, who has for a year conducted an observation station there...