Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
Death came last week to Adolf A. Joffe who put an end to his life by firing a bullet through his brain. For several years be had suffered intensely from polyneuritis (inflammation of several trunk nerves), aggravated by kidney trouble and heart disease. No motive other than to end his misery is ascribed to the suicide...
...family, he broke body and soul with the old ideals and devoted himself wholly to the cause of the proletariat. At the end of an overburdened physical suffering, he yielded to a temporary depression, but I ask you, comrades, to imitate him not in his death, but in his life, which was dedicated to the purest principles of Marx and Lenin, under whose flag he marched, as we march, to the bitter...
...next era in his life was spent as an exiled revolutionary. In 1908 he had met Trotsky in Vienna and together they founded the Pravda, now flourishing in Moscow under the editorship of Nikolai Bukharin. On one of his many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...
...final period in his life was devoted to consolidating the revolution. He was first entrusted with the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, being later succeeded there by Leon Trotsky. He then was appointed first Soviet Ambassador to Berlin, whence twelve years before he had been expelled. His activities in preparing the way for the German revolution, however, forced the Imperial Government to hand him his passports. He returned home to become Commissar for Foreign Affairs...