Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auctioneer was German. The bids were in U. S. dollars. The place was Leningrad last week, and $3,000,000 worth of furs were sold by the Soviet Government to foreign bidders...
...bells, upon which only Russian music can be played, and by a Russian bell-ringer. This last requirement is due to the fact that the tone of the bells is extremely low, lower than those of any European country, a characteristic of Russian bells. The set was secured in Leningrad, where the Soviet government had collected bells from churches all over Russia to be melted down...
...process of being, installed in Lowell House tower, has been lowered to the ground, and will probably be placed elsewhere. The bell, the fourth largest in size, and supposedly the most handsomely engraved, does not belong to the original set which was recently removed from a small church near Leningrad, and it has been found difficult to hang it with the others. Its eventual destination is as yet unknown, but it is certain to be placed in some of the buildings about the University, depending upon the decision of President Lowell...
With ash trays at their elbows the Supreme Court judges smoked incessantly, seemed frankly bored. Their President Comrade Alexy Vyshinsky, also presided at the Schakhta Trial. Two of the judges had come to the Supreme Court Bench directly from their workbenches in a Moscow and a Leningrad factory...
Originally the bells came from several churches and monasteries in Russia. When they were purchased they had just been removed from a small church near Leningrad and were destined to be melted for their bronze when the donor, who chooses to remain anonymous, bought them for Harvard. They will probably be hoisted into the tower by means of a derrick about the end of this month or in the early part of November...