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...middle of the harvest season, but one of the farm's tractor drivers shows up drunk and the other is stuck in a ditch; villagers are lolling about in the community bath houses instead of working the fields; for five months they have not received a single kopek of advance wages because there has been no money to distribute...
Inevitably, he will be chided for Russia's errors of facts and judgment, for gall in attempting so huge a task, and glibness in its execution. In fact, though the book is sprinkled with such minor bobbles as his reference to a nonexistent 25-kopek piece, these are heavily outweighed by his sound reporting, his artful wrap-up of others' findings, and his sober conclusions. Unlike most books on Russia. Gunther's Soviet survey is fortified with perspective gained on three other professional sojourns between 1928 and 1939 for as much as five months at a time...
Charges. One of the present seven school board members, ex-Councilman Vincent Sadlowski, who runs a tavern, was once indicted for accepting a bribe from a parking meter company (the case was dismissed). Two years ago, Board Member Eddie Kopek, who owns a laundry to which the board illegally gave $1,467.13 worth of business, was indicted for trying to sell the principalship of the Pulaski Elementary School (the indictment is still pending; Kopek resigned from the board last month...
...Sender and Nissen was pledged in such a leisurely prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally to win Sender's daughter Leah...
...have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much as a copper kopek. Restrained, but ominous, this statement read: "The Japanese Army has decided to adopt a stronger attitude than before in the event of future Soviet provocations." Meanwhile Moscow made an even stiffer threat, hurled by Soviet Vice President Kuznetsov of C. E. R. Said he: "The Soviet Government will protect the railway...