Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine other members of the all-powerful Politbureau (Steering Committee) of the Communist Party has been virtually impossible. Competent observers have believed for years that nothing but an inside job could finish one of the Big Ten. Last week in the very Cradle of the Revolution, in Leningrad's Smolny Institute, came the momentous shot...
...Blake, Librarian. The addition of 126,935 volumes last year brought the total number of books in the Harvard University Library to 3,602,040, number which is surpassed only by the British Museum, The French National Library, the Library of Congress. The New York City Public Library, the Leningrad Public Library, and the Moscow Public Library. It has the further distinction of being the largest University Library in the world...
...invincible Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, the 40 sedate young men and women who compose the Westminster Choir entered Leningrad last week. All were well versed in the Scriptures and in the art of singing (TIME, June 11). But without Mrs. Talbott they could never have been the first U. S. musical delegation to reach Soviet Russia. Dayton's 70-year-old matriarch had opened her own purse generously; all last spring she bustled about Manhattan to get the backing of businessmen. Her reward last week was great. In Leningrad the audience cheered when the Choir began with a rousing...
...different was the cruise of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which steamed out of Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged...
Russians beheld the arrival upside down in Leningrad last week of U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt as the government plane, piloted from Moscow by the U. S. military attache, nosed over on landing and left both men hanging heels over heads from their safety straps. First news of this event reached President Roosevelt in an Ambassadorial cable: "PLANE LANDED UPSIDE DOWN BUT WE EMERGED RIGHT SIDE UP. TRUST NO ONE HAS REPORTED TO YOU THAT WE ARE DEAD...