Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Webb Miller, United Press's European manager, published a series of six "uncensored" articles whose material he gathered in Russia this summer. High point of the series was a story illustrating the vigilance Soviet writers must keep to stay in line...
...being chafed about his pet cat, of which he was inordinately fond. 'Well, I should love that cat,' Lapinsky said finally, grinning. 'The other day he scratched one of my manuscripts, and I found that he had saved me from a grievous deviation from the party line.' Lapinsky has disappeared now-no one knows where. Apparently his cat failed him at last...
...days before this anecdote was published in the U. S., in the U. S. S. R. Moscovites were gasping at an editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial...
...wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...
Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...