Word: konstantinovich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-jawed Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk. Since 1932 he has been Soviet State Planner No. 1, and his latest Five-Year Plan is especially behind schedule in Heavy Industry. Last week J. Stalin made the now necessarily friendly move of having Buyer-Planner Mezhlauk appointed to replace the late Grigoriy Konstantinovich Orclzhonikidze, as Commissar for Heavy Industry. Russia's planners and Russia's performers, inevitably, blame each other for Five-Year Plan setbacks and it is no bed of roses in which long-jawed Mezhlauk was planted...
...freely said they had tried to have Dictator Joseph Stalin killed, the most striking feature of the Second Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) was the agreement of the prisoners that they had also done their best to rid Russia of darkling, high-powered Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze...
...tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, a swarthy, hot-eyed Georgian who is married to an Eskimo, and plump U. S. Woman Novelist Ursula Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss) agreed last week that Russians are growing more cleanly. The Commissar was quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture...