Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...
...commission sailed away, the U. S. Consulate, which had done nothing at all about the jailing of the commission, went to work to do something about Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. They were still sweltering in Tiscornia Immigration Station, clutching their round-trip tickets to Mexico City...
Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar, two mildly adventurous Manhattan schoolteachers on a holiday jaunt to Mexico City, counted themselves very lucky last week when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national...
...know was that two U. S. Government agents were also on board and that the Cuban Government was expecting the girls' new friends. At the Havana dock, Cuban police and immigration officers swarmed aboard, herded the investigating commission into a corner and with it Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. Late that night they were all led to a pier, their papers confiscated. Two launches ferried them across Havana Bay. On the dark shore they marched uphill, nudged along by submachine guns, to the Tiscornia Immigration Station. Later that night Author Odets was permitted to send a cable...
Breaking the old Bolshevik rule that railway casualties must be concealed, new Commissar of Railways Lazar Kaganovich last week revealed 62,000 accidents on Soviet lines in 1934, with destruction of 4,500 cars, damage to 7,000 locomotive and 60,000 cars, "material loss" of 500 cars, damage to 7.000 locomotives and 60,000 cars, "material of 60,000,000 rubles and the deaths of "hundreds of persons." Editorialed the Party newsorgan Pravda next day: "The previous policy of concealing railway wrecks was wrong...