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...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...
Since the Dictator lost his second wife (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) he has "reverted to the Oriental type." The Dictator is from semi-Oriental Georgia, famed for such other torchbearers as the Marrying Mdivanis. First of his friends was the sister of handsome onetime Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich...
...gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty, the intellectual pleasure and spiritual...
Heavy Industry: Lazar M. Kaganovich...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either...