Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy, Capitalism. Candidate Lazar M. Kaganovich asserted flatly: "We are still within the capitalist encirclement." Candidate Viacheslav Molotov warned: Russia is watchful of "possible hotbeds . . . intrigues against international security. . . . Everything must be done to make the Red Army as good as the armies of other countries...
...ordered Lazar M. Kaganovich, chief of Soviet heavy industry, to develop an atomic bomb in two years, a defense against it in six months...
...facts, and cast with real emigres and internees, most of whom had never acted before, the movie has an eyewitness ring, and it elevates one small aspect of the war to a parable of the whole. In working with untrained actors and an untamed landscape, veteran Swiss Producer Lazar Wechsler kept his story skillfully simple, his camera work properly unsophisticated. The result is no Grand Illusion (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), but it is an earnest and unassuming film which will be remembered...
...scarcely more relevant than those eagerly reported from wartime visitors to Moscow: that Stalin speaks Russian with a thick Georgian accent; that he has been thrice married, that his present wife, Rosa, is the sister of the Vice President of the Council of the People's Commissars, Lazar Kaganovitch; that Stalin is rather formal with his sons (one of whom is a German prisoner) but occasionally romps with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad to his offices in the Kremlin; that he rests...
Cash from Waxey? The committee learned that the company had started in business on $35,000 from a Brooklyn trucker and Sam Lazar, Philadelphia's pinball tycoon. But the committee suspected that the cash actually came from Waxey Gordon and that he ran Worldwide, which had contracted for well over $100,000 in surplus property. The committee thought that the quickest way to find out was to ask Waxey. The committee was wrong...