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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...
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...
...that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
...thousands of cars and millions of rails which Russia desperately needs. Instead, the Dictator's policy is to menace Russian railway men with firing squads, goad them to achievements of despair in making antique rolling stock roll on. Goader-in-Chief is the Dictator's dear friend Lazar Kaganovich. About this time last year Comrade Kaganovich thundered, "The railways of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics must and shall load 68,000 cars every...
...Howard F. Schomer, Oak Park, III.; John H. Sardeson, Oak Park, III.; Robert Kramer, Jr., Davenport, Ia.; Robert A. Stewart, Jr., Independence, Ia.; John R. Yungblut, Dayton, Ky.; Irving M. Pinansky, Portland, Me.; Thomas S. Risley, Waterville, Me.; Cesar L. Barber, Bethesda, Md.; Louis H. Conger, Jr., Muskegon, Mich.; Lazar M. Paves, Detroit, Mich.; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Mich...