Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet archcriminal, guiltiest of the Old Bolsheviks on trial, was "That Monkey" Radek, depicted horribly grimacing and malevolent on the 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...
...firing squads in the cork-lined cellars of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs ("Ogpu") was a foregone conclusion. Last week the Moscow editors were writing with higher-powered vituperation than ever before. This was because the Star Prisoner was their intimate friend and colleague of many a year, Comrade Karl Radek, until recently the No. i writer on foreign affairs of the Stalin official press. It was as if Walter Lippmann or the late Arthur Brisbane or the New York Times's Arthur Krock should be in the dock of the Supreme Court at Washington, about to be rubbed...
This year's president is one of Princeton's Grand Old Men, Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin. Retiring president is Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, who is also the President of M. I. T. and a brother of Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...
...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...
...President, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was screened in celebration of his 75th birthday. On that same day, little Finland paid into the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan $231,315.50, the last installment on her War debt to U. S. Fin land's unique integrity was lately respon sible for Karl Kojander, a hungry Finn who lives in Brooklyn, being put on Relief. Declared the Judge: "We aren't going to permit a Finn to starve when Finland is the one country to pay its War debt...