Word: karle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grigori Zinoviev became President of the Committee for the second time; the names of War Lord Trotzky and Karl Radek, two erstwhile powers of Communism, were dropped. This is obviously in retaliation for both Trot-ky's and Radek's criticism of the Communist Party, but it is exceedingly doubtful if the former, who is said to be popular in Russia, can be ousted from the Committee with impunity...
...bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe, one of the original flags of the Paris Commune (Europe's first encounter with Karl Marx Communism)-the last to go over the barricades when the French regulars from Versailles crushed the Reds. In the centre of the delegation fluttered from a pole the faded red flag; on the top of the pyramid Kalinin received it and it found its way to a deputation...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York; Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; the Countess of Amherst; Karl Bauer, famed German publicist; Hale Hamilton, playwright, with his wife, Grace La Rue, singer; George H. Doran, famed publisher; Ben Ali Haggin, designer of Ziegfeld tableaux; Arthur Hopkins, producer; John Conley, "tin foil king"; Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, wife of the famed banker, with their 17-year-old son, Roger W. Kahn, famed saxophone player and jazz leader; Mortimer Slater, Editor of the Jewish Morning Journal...
Munich has been the scene of a bitter engagement between those age-old foes-Radicals and Conservatives. The Minister of Education took advantage of a recent law (retiring government officials about the age of 65) to oust six conservative professors from the Academy, including the Director, Karl von Marr, American-born. Said Professor von Marr: "These ultra-Modernists are mentally afflicted. They are sick in their heads, and the more I see of their work, the more I become convinced of the fact. Most of them are incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases...
...said Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx-"father of modern socialism"-to the Moscow Government when it requested permission to transfer his grandfather's body from Highgate Cemetery, London, to the Red capital. In his refusal he stated that the Bolshevik interpretation of Karl Marx's doctrines was entirely wrong and he did not think that his grandfather would have liked his memory associated with it. Allegedly this is a great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that...