Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Riazanzev, once a General in the Tsarist army, was arrested speedily at Moscow. Fired by the Soviet press, workers' meetings throughout European Russia telegraphed to the Capital resolution after resolution demanding Death for the 48 accused. One resolution asked that the supreme Soviet decoration, "The Order of Lenin," be conferred on Ogpu, the secret service organization which had ferreted out this plot. A new flood of contributions poured in from workers for the proposed Soviet Zeppelin, to be christened Ogpu in honor of the secret police...
...there an exchange of winks? Probably not, but possibly. Kemal and Ismet are co-heroes of the Turkish Revolution, might be called their country's Lenin and Trotsky. Gravely the newsorgans of Angora announced that the President of the Republic, having taken advice and counsel, found that His Excellency Ismet Pasha is alone competent to guide the nation through these difficult times, and asked him to form a Cabinet. It was learned "on the very highest authority" that General Ismet, in conference with "leading politicans." was finding it quite possible to form a Government...
...exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught on the subway with books by Lenin, Scott Nearing and Harvard's Professor Felix Frankfurter...
...Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin who put through this amazing Act (TIME, April 14). With as deeply rutted a single-track mind as Lenin's or Mussolini's he has highly resolved that Australia shall reverse her unfavorable trade balance, cut down her spending and resultant borrowing abroad, and rescue the Australian worker from unemployment by forcing the creation of new home industries. Australians shall raise birdseed, crush peanuts into butter, perfect their imitations of Champagne, build snorting locomotives, and jump homemade Stump Jump Plows...
...past year. The books are not merely repositories of facts which must be painfully mastered and reproduced for examinations; they are both interesting for their own sakes and thought provoking. Starting with J. H. Robinson's "The Mind in the Making," they include works by such varied authors as Lenin, Walter Lippman, President Lowell, and John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions...